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Gewertz, Catherine – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Twenty-five years ago, the still-resonant report "A Nation at Risk" urged schools to add more time--an hour to the usual six hour day and 20-40 days to the typical 180-day ear--to ward off a "rising tide of mediocrity" in American education. Today, city, school, state, and national leaders are engaged in a renewed effort to do…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Time Factors (Learning), Poverty, Minority Groups
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Labaree, David – Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
Teach for America (TFA) is a marvel at marketing, offering elite college students a win-win option: by becoming corps members, they can do good and do well at the same time. Teacher education (TE) programs are in a hopeless position in trying to compete with TFA for prospective students. They cannot provide students with the opportunity to do…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Education, Entrepreneurship