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"Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBCT) is a signal achievement in the education world. It means that a teacher has completed between one and three years of rigorous study and self-appraisal that includes a portfolio of student work, classroom videotapes and tests of content knowledge.

In February, Marie Fonrose, then a counselor at Anacostia, was… Continue

Throughout my years of teaching, I have often heard the term "crazy check" and it is embedded into everyday vernacular. Also, Urban Dictionary defines crazy check as:

"Some unnecessary monthly payment from Medicaid or S.S.I. which is made purportedly for a disability suffered by the payee. Crazy checks usually go to people already receiving other public as… Continue

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Herbert Kohl: "Dear Secretary Duncan, I’m worried about the direction you’re taking education policy. In a recent interview with NEA Today, you said you read my book “36 Children” in high school and wrote an essay about it in college. “The book had a big impact on me,” you said, adding that it gave you “tremendous hope” to address the “challenges that teachers in tough communities face.”… Continue