Individual teacher grade cards show room for improvement statewide

The Ohio Department of Education released the first individual teacher report cards, Yahoo! News reports. School district and building effectiveness rankings are commonplace, but the district voluntary pilot program illustrates one of the all-important first steps initiated to reform Ohio’s failing schools. Requirements detailed in Gov. John Kasich’s approved budget and President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top education plan require greater teacher accountability, performance evaluations and professional development requirements…

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Cheating teachers, principals found in 5 more Georgia schools

Richard Hyde, the investigator behind the July bombshell report of extensive teacher cheating in Atlanta’s schools, expects to have the next installment of the unfolding saga ready by Thanksgiving, reports the Huffington Post. At the request of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Purdue, Hyde and his team are now investigating several suspicious test results from schools in Dougherty County, which surrounds Albany, Ga., and where one quarter of residents live below the poverty line. The investigative team also includes workers from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who have been quietly interviewing teachers in the district, sometimes with the aid of a polygraph machine…

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