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...Uyghur (pronounced WEE-gurr). Uyghurs are a minority in Western China who, like the Tibetans, are engaged in a struggle against the Chinese government for increased freedoms. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he participated in the Scholars at Risk program at Harvard and is now a language teacher for the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department...
...former D.C. teacher, I cannot thank you enough for your cover story on Rhee and the state of emergency that exists in the Washington school system. Rhee might not win Miss Congeniality, but she's doing what's best for the students. What matters more than that? Kristen James, HADDONFIELD...
Decades of research show that two main factors result in better educational outcomes for poor and minority children: intensive, individualized early preschooling and small elementary-school classes. Yet for the past decade, the focus has been entirely on teacher quality. Why? It's cheaper and more palatable politically. Of course, it's better to have a good teacher than a poor one. But if you put the best teacher in a rundown school with a class of 35 students, most of them below grade level and some with developmental and discipline problems, that teacher is not likely to be able...
...Washington, D.C., public-school system, widely regarded as one of the worst in the nation. The Economist reports that if the district were a state, its test scores would be the lowest in the country. Rhee has taken aggressive steps to change this. Her proposal would increase baseline teacher salaries from around $40,000 to $78,000 a year, and high-performing teachers who were willing to forgo tenure would receive a salary of up to $130,000. A combination of improved efficiency and private donors would cover the increased costs...
...This is truly a revolutionary plan: Teacher tenure has seldom been seriously challenged. However, we have reached a point where revolutionary change is needed. The critical lack of effective and enthusiastic teachers is both a crisis and a national disgrace. Making teaching salaries commensurate with other, more lucrative fields will hopefully go a long way toward fixing this. At present, as Ivy League graduates can earn six-figure salaries out of school in offices, not even long summer vacations can make a teacher’s meager paycheck seem enticing to the best candidates...