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Merit Pay Loses Luster As Budgets Shrink

Education Week | Nora Fleming | Posted 11.16.2011

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Two competing pressures--decreased finances and rising policy interest--have left the future of performance-based teacher compensation uncertain. A...

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Teachers In Detroit Face Big Cuts To Wages, Health Care

Posted 09.28.2011

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(Reuters) - Detroit public school teachers will take a 10 percent wage cut and pay more for health care in what the school system's manager on Fri...

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Internet Taxes Could Cover Salaries Of More Than 46,000 Teachers

AP | CHRIS TOMLINSON | Posted 08.19.2011

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This post has been corrected. AUSTIN, Texas — State governments across the country are laying off teachers, closing public libraries and parks,...

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Kindergarten Teaching Affects Success Later In Life, New Study Shows

Posted 05.25.2011

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It has long been thought that the quality of kindergarten education does not have lasting effects on students as they mature into adulthood. This conc...

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