The easy part of this question is the definition. An effective teacher is one whose pupils learn what they should while under his/her tutelage...

The California Academic Content Standards Commission is considering adopting the national Common Core standards in place of the state's existing standards and at the same time also modestly augmenting the Common Core standards in order to maintain the rigor of California's expectations of students...

To cope with the cuts we need a new model of funding, but one which ensures that poorer students are not excluded...

After all that sophisticated criticism of the replacement of large schools with smaller ones, it comes as a total shock to learn that students are more likely to graduate from high school in New York City if they attended one of the small high schools...