The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2008 state of the state addresses. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.
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| Governor Tim Pawlenty's State of the State Address
Parent Involvement
-- Promote, in every conceivable way, parent involvement and parent responsibility.
Teaching Quality -- Recruitment, Alternative Certification
-- Expand the talent pool of public educators.
-- Attract and expand opportunities for mid-career professionals to become teachers.
-- Attract the most talented young people to teaching.
-- Make it easier for rising stars with needed subject-matter expertise to follow alternative pathways into the profession.
Teaching Quality -- Math and Science Teachers
-- Improve teacher training and evaluation but prioritize by focusing on areas of the most need and highest impact -- math and science.
-- Increase funding for regional math and science academies by 50 percent -- to give teachers enhanced knowledge and skills that improve student performance.
-- Design and deploy a world-leading summer training institute for the state's math and science teachers. Feature training in world-class .teaching methods, curriculum, technology and subject matter mastery. Train 1000 over the next two summers.
Teaching Quality -- Tenure
-- Improve teacher training and accountability by implementing a system of post-tenure review.
Technology
-- Develop a world-class, digitally stored, always available, anytime, jaw-dropping, eye-popping teaching toolbox accessible to all students and teachers.
http://www.governor.state.mn.us/stellent/groups/public/documents/web_content/prod008674.pdf | |
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