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Friday, August 19, 2011

Daily Kos: Education-- Moving Past Excuses: What Excellence & Equity Require

Daily Kos: Education-- Moving Past Excuses: What Excellence & Equity Require

Education-- Moving Past Excuses: What Excellence & Equity Require

Barnett Berry is the President of The Center for Teaching Quality. I am a member of one of its organizations, theTeacher Leaders Network. About a month ago Barnett posted a piece titled Moving Past Excuses: What Excellence & Equity Require. It was written in the aftermath of news about the cheating scandals in Atlanta and Washington DC, and several other things about education that hit the news in the same time frame.

Barnett Berry has long been an advocate of a broader role for our more gifted and effective teachers, one where they could exercise leadership without having to leave the classroom. As it says on the Teacher Leaders webpage,

TLN is a network of active communities populated by highly accomplished teacher leaders from