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- Israel offering bonuses to teachers who boost student enlistment
- Los Angeles teachers agree to student test scores in evaluations
- Obama in Asheville
| Israel offering bonuses to teachers who boost student enlistment Posted: 20 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST Israel is offering new salary bonuses to high school educators based on criteria including their success in motivating pupils to perform their army service, fueling criticism of alleged militarism in its education system. |
| Los Angeles teachers agree to student test scores in evaluations Posted: 19 Jan 2013 10:32 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teachers in Los Angeles have agreed to have test scores factored into performance evaluations in the nation's second-largest school district, their union said on Saturday in a concession to a growing national movement to revamp teacher appraisals. United Teachers Los Angeles said in a statement that 66 percent of the nearly 17,000 members who cast ballots had voted in favor of the new agreement on evaluations. The union has more than 30,000 members in a district second in size only to New York. ... |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2013 09:00 PM PST James Franco is an actor and writer. He is the author of the poetry chapbook "Strongest of the Litter" and the short story collection "Palo Alto." His poetry collection, "Directing Herbert White," is scheduled to be published in April 2014 by Graywolf Press. He received a Best Actor nomination in 2011 for his role in "127 Hours." |
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