In 2011, my colleague Nathan Saunders and I called for an immediate, full-scale investigation to be conducted by an unbiased third party.The Sanford memosuggesting 70 schools may be at issuealso calls into serious question whether the investigations done by the D.C. inspector general and the U.S.
The 98 firings are less than half of last years 206 performance-based firings, Emma Brown reports in the Post. Nathan Saunders, president of the Washington Teachers Union, said the IMPACT regime has been softened up and is now more collaborative. And the union, he said, has made a concerted
Date: Aug 02, 2012
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Big gains in DC schools' test scores 'plausible,' firm says
Nathan Saunders, president of the Washington Teachers' Union, questioned the validity of interviews where teachers could be identified by superiors. "It is not an environment where teachers, out of common sense, feel they can speak freely," he said.
Date: Mar 29, 2011
Source: Google
When test scores soared in DC, were the gains real?
"This is like an education Ponzi scam," says Nathan Saunders, head of the Washington Teachers' Union. "If your test scores improve, you make more money. If not, you get fired. That's incredibly dangerous."
Central Elementary School Elizabeth City NC 1988-1991, Northside Elementary School Elizabeth City NC 1991-1995, Elizabeth City Middle School Elizabeth City NC 1995-1997
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