... his or her potential. Unfortunately, schools are also facing a severe shortage of teachers, particularly in middle and secondary schools as well as areas such as special education. One short-term solution has been the use of teachers who are operating with emergency credentials. Leave No Child Behind has said no to emergency certification and legislation to establish Teach Institution has opened ... teachers. One result of the teacher shortage is now an over-dependence on emergency preparation and/or alternative preparation procedures to staff classrooms. Emergency-credentialed teachers...

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... best Greek and Latin. This harsh condemnation of the existing Renaissance educational system was repeated in the first half of the seventeenth century. An English schoolmaster named John Brisley and a Bohemian educational reformer named John Amos Comenius both despaired that the students at the lower levels of education could only write Latin and had little understanding of the meaning of the texts ... ...

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... student than the least successful, a function of economic and geographical segregation, in the last eight years the federal government decided that it would rather mandate what it deemed to be a solution of higher standards for all students through No Child Left Behind's unfunded legislation than address systemic issues like poverty and racism, which are at the heart of the problem. In ... ...

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