Comments on: Mile High http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/mile-high.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:00:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Linda/Retired Teacher http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/mile-high.html/comment-page-1#comment-152564 Linda/Retired Teacher Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:59:26 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=5445#comment-152564 I am glad that administrators are trying to place experienced and successful teachers in the neediest schools. For years the teachers with the least amount of experience were placed in challenging schools that required fully credentialed, successful teachers. Sadly, superintendents are still placing new teachers with six weeks of summer training in our urban schools today. Teachers and their associations have long demanded fully qualified teachers for every classroom. Perhaps now it will happen. I am glad that administrators are trying to place experienced and successful teachers in the neediest schools. For years the teachers with the least amount of experience were placed in challenging schools that required fully credentialed, successful teachers. Sadly, superintendents are still placing new teachers with six weeks of summer training in our urban schools today.

Teachers and their associations have long demanded fully qualified teachers for every classroom. Perhaps now it will happen.

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