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In most ways, Southeastern University's 2009 graduation is like most others in the history of the 130-year-old school -- grinning graduates, camera flashes, the solemn rendering of "Pomp and Circumstance." But the tiny private school in Southwest D.C., long a home for lower-income or older students, is on the verge of closing or merging with another school. (Kevin Clark - The Washington Post)
The program, adopted by more than 80 school systems nationwide including Montgomery, confronts one of public education's most vexing problems: What to do with under-performing teachers?
Jay Mathews
Students at a charter middle school in Baltimore earned the city's highest public school test scores. But achievement would suffer under a proposed teacher contract.
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