The high cost of academically under-qualified teachers

The high cost of academically under-qualified teachers

It was once a matter of common sense that teachers cannot teach what they do not know. And research supports the view that a teacher's knowledge of his or her subject area is, so far, the best and only predictor of student achievement.

In Massachusetts, common sense guided the state department of education's revision of the Bay State's teacher licensing regulations and licensure tests a decade earlier.

Kerry used private email to send Clinton now-classified material
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Kerry used private email to send Clinton now-classified material

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday that John Kerry, when he was a senator, used a private email account to send information now deemed classified to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her personal server.

Spokesman John Kirby said then-Senator Kerry used a "non-official account" to send a May 19, 2011, message to Clinton and then-national security adviser Tom Donilon. Portions of the message were classified as "secret" last week and censored when it was released along with about another 1,000 of Clinton's emails on Friday. The non-redacted portions of the message in question refer to developments in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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