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海角社区 Schools in Focus: Improving Educator Effectiveness鈥擴seful Feedback Key to 海角社区鈥檚 PEPG Initiative

In 2012, 海角社区 joined the majority of states in the effort to upgrade professional quality through better performance evaluation of teachers and principals. The Legislature, in passing LD 1858, required all districts to develop Professional Evaluation and Professional Growth (PEPG) systems, part of the federal government鈥檚 Race to the Top. All districts were to create their own systems and pilot them in 2015-16. This year, some districts are implementing these systems while others are taking a second year of pilot-testing.

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Professor examines 100 years of rural education research

What can you learn by studying 100 years of academic writing about rural education in the United States? For Catharine Biddle, assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of 海角社区, it鈥檚 this: the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Education Week publishes commentary by Biddle

Education Week published the commentary 鈥淗ow education is failing rural America,鈥 by Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of 海角社区, and Daniella Hall, a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.

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