Articles By: kristenblair_259

Historical Fiction

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Unfortunately, our collective history is unfamiliar to many American high schoolers. Responses to Common Core’s questionnaire, put to 1,200 17-year-olds, paint a startling portrait of teenage historical and literary ignorance.

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Teacher Pay Revisited

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Traditional compensation systems, long advocated by teachers’ unions, emphasize degrees earned and time on the job but a budding merit-pay movement is attempting to change that, interjecting marketplace sensibilities into a profession that has historically provided few monetary incentives or rewards for high-fliers.

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