Government+Improving+Teaher+Quality

= = =Government Improving Teacher Quality= The government required with the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that by the end of the 2005-2006 that there will be a highly qualified teacher in every class room. A teacher makes a huge difference in the standardized tests and college preporation. Most of these huge differencesare in minority and high-poverty students. Even though states and educational organizations have started to find ways to recruit more qualified teachers but..... more help is required.
 * Providing Sate grants to train and recruit teachers
 * Recruiting highly qualified individauls to become teachers
 * Expanding programs to train teachers in specific subject areas
 * Implementing the Teacher Protection Act
 * Creating a new teacher tax deduction
 * Providing extended student loan forgivness for teachers

What we believed before...
We believed that students who knew less were given to teachers with less education and skills.These students mostly consisted of minority and high-povery students. These teacher who had less education and skills were left to either to "sink or swim" they had no support.

What we believed after...
That there should be a highly qualified teacher in every classroom that has the education and the skills to teach any student; weither they are minority or high-poverty. Principals should know how to work with teachers in order to help them improve.

How do schools still act as if we have the "old" beliefs?
There are states that just approve a large amount of teachers that have been working for a while that have questionable qualifications.This doesn't help the students that know less becasue it goes back to the beliefs that were held before.

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