“I’m saying that seniority is not an appropriate way to manage the assignment of teachers based on what we know in the 21st century,” he said. “It’s no longer about teacher preferences. It’s about whether the teacher is the best match for that particular student.”
With that strongly worded statement, Peter McWalters, the retiring RI Education [...]

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You may have read Good to Great, a classic business book by Jim Collins that examines through research why some companies “take off to greatness” after many years of mediocrity, while others lag behind. If you haven’t read it, you should, it is applicable far beyond traditional for-profit businesses. I was freshly reminded of Collin’s [...]

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