is an assistant editor for
Education Week. She covers teachers (including professional issues, unions, teacher education, and professional development), and the states of Michigan and Vermont.
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On media-center couches and at conference-room tables, downing Cokes and sipping coffee together, teachers around the country are cracking open books to get better at what they do—and, often, relishing the experience.
Expert advice on ways to reduce unnecessary leave far outstrips what education leaders have so far ventured to do about the problem.
The Teaching Policy Fellowship aims to promote ways to retain teachers who have made it successfully through the first years of teaching but may not stay a lifetime.
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