TCLA's School Report Card Series
La serie de la Boleta escolar
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1. Introduction
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2. Mission & Description
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3. Learning Materials
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4. Teaching Quality
Enseñanza de alta calidad
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5. Learning & Assessment
Asesoría y aprendizaje estudiantil
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6. Safe & Democratic Environment
Ambiente escolar seguro y democrático
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>> Quality Teachers For All
"What the evidence suggests most strongly is that teacher quality matters and should be a major focus of efforts to upgrade the quality of schooling. Skilled teachers are the most critical of all schooling inputs."
— Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University
Access to qualified teachers matters. Research shows it; parents and students know it. Yet, uncredentialed teachers represent more than one third of the faculty at hundreds of schools in low income communities across LA County ...
Teacher Cicely Bingener with Woodworth Elementary Parents
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| >> Special Features
In celebration of César E. Chávez' birthday, Teaching to Change LA hosts a compilation of essays, interviews, artwork, and teaching materials dedicated to his life and legacy.
  Teaching to Change LA Advocates Peace
Peace educator Cris Gutierrez invites students and teachers to submit stories, questions, poetry, reflections, drawings, pictures, or photographs about peace for TCLA's new ongoing feature.
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TCLA's Virtual School Report Card
Los Angeles area students, parents, and teachers report on access to quality teachers.
"To be a teacher you should have a calling. The teachers who have a calling are great teachers. The teachers who teach because it is their job are usually the ones who could care less about a student."
-- Fremont High School student
"Since [my teacher] thought of new and fun ways to teach, it made me look into different ways to be interested and learn in a variety of subjects." -- Liz Escobedo, Roosevelt High
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| >> Features in this Issue
 Stories of Possibility
A School for the People: Educators and Families Attend a Conference on Popular Education
Parents and educators work to promote the ideals of popular education as envisioned by Paulo Freire.
by Yvonne Ballesteros
Making the Grade
The Power of Parent Involvement:
Woodworth Elementary’s Room 3 Parent Partners
Woodworth Kindergarten teachers Aisha Blanchard-Young and Cicely Bingener believe that parents are "students' first teacher."
by Solange Castro Belcher
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 Suggestions for "Walk-In" Classrooms
The Redwood City School District's Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment program (BTSA) developed a list of materials teachers need to facilitate student work.
 Rating Teacher Quality: An Interview with Ken Futernick
Professor of Education Ken Futernick discusses the Teacher Qualification Index, a standardized rating system that reflects the credential status and experience level of teachers in California schools.
by Solange Castro Belcher
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Archived Front Page of TCLA - Vol.3, No.4 (6/9/03)
