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Of course I remember having you in my class.

At the beginning of the Great Depression, high school graduation rates in the United States were 30 percent. In 1940, it was 50 percent. This educational leap forward is the lede for David Leonhardt’s piece in the New York Times … Continue reading

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The data on measuring big goals

This is the second written response to the TFA pre-institute work (response 1). The focus is on the importance of setting big goals. Research demonstrates that leaders who set exceptional expectations for their teams can get exceptional results. TFA’s own … Continue reading

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Count on it

Next fall I will be teaching secondary school English, and in order to be effective I’m going to need to brush up on my math. As I was starting the process of applying to Teach for America, one of the … Continue reading

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