Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that WorkLewis C. Solmon, Kimberly Firetag Agam, Tamara W. Schiff Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy, Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement. The series explains to policymakers, parents, business leaders, and teachers the importance of teacher quality in increasing student achievement. This volume is based primarily on the proceedings from the 2004 Milken National Education Conference (NEC), which was held in Washington, D.C., in May 2004. |
Contents
Part II State Challenges | 53 |
Part III Teacher Quality | 73 |
Part IV What it Takes to Make a Performance Pay Plan Work | 107 |
Part V No Child Left Behind | 191 |
Part VI What Wil My Union Say | 273 |
Part VII Evaluating Reform | 287 |
Conference Presenters | 329 |
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