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Our vision is to found a Kindergarten through 5th grade public charter school, opening in 2013, which brings the advantages of a Waldorf style education to Northeast Los Angeles.
We are calling for participants willing to strategize, collaborate and give skills and time to help us
make it happen.

The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers – from NYTimes

Posted: August 18th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Teachers | Tags: , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

A few weeks old, but I just caught wind of this article in the New York Times business section. It presents research based on adult outcomes rather than test scores about how an excellent Kindergarten teacher can have an excellent long-term effect for education.

Early this year, Mr. Chetty and five other researchers … examined the life paths of almost 12,000 children who had been part of a well-known education experiment in Tennessee in the 1980s. The children are now about 30, well started on their adult lives.

On Tuesday, Mr. Chetty presented the findings — not yet peer-reviewed — at an academic conference in Cambridge, Mass. They’re fairly explosive.

This is right in line with our thinking as we develop el Rio – one of our main core values being teacher support, empowerment, and professional development.

I don’t know about $320,000 salaries – we’ll have to sell a LOT of birds. :)