Formal Testimony and Comment

Testimony to the Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching of the National Education Association

Date: 
March 21 2011

Richard Lemons
Vice President for K-12 Policy and Practice
The Education Trust

Testimony to the Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching of the
National Education Association
February 10, 2010

 

If you will humor me, I thought it useful to anchor my comments within a set of personal experiences dating back some  20 years when I first entered the teaching profession.

As a recent graduate certified in secondary social studies, I sent out resumes to sever

Letter to Senate HELP Committee on ESEA Reauthorization

Date: 
May 7 2010

Read the letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The document contains sections on Accountability for Results, Standards and Assessments, Ensuring Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Leaders, Turning Around Our Lowest Performing Schools, Funding Fairness, Instructional Supports for Teachers, and Public Information and Reporting.

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Testimony of Linda Murray, Acting Executive Director, The Education Trust–West, to House Education and Labor Committee Hearing on Teacher Quality and Distribution

Date: 
September 30 2009

Chairman Miller, members of the committee: Thank you very much for providing me with the opportunity to talk with you this morning  about the importance of strong teaching  to our  effort to boost student achievement and close achievement gaps.

United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor

Date: 
September 10 2007

Mr. Chairman, Mr. McKeon, and Members of the Committee, thank you for providing me with the opportunity to testify before you this morning on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, in particular about the teacher quality provisions.

This Committee has shown great leadership not only in confronting the achievement gap in our public schools, but also in recognizing that improving the quality of teaching at high-poverty and high-minority schools is the most effective gap-closing strategy.

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Written Testimony: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Date: 
March 6 2007

Others on this panel will talk with you today about the pressing need to dramatically increase the effectiveness of America’s teaching force. I could not agree more. For the record, though, I want to emphasize that much more is at stake than simply meeting the goals and timelines of No Child Left Behind.

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