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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And now to another in our series on the nation's high school dropout crisis, told this time through a different lens. Good teachers can help keep kids in school, but how can schools hold on to their top teachers?
Hari is back with a report for our American Graduate project.
HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour): It's a simple question at the center of almost any discussion on education reform. What makes a good teacher?
But the answers are many and often complex, and the question can lead to highly polarizing debates over exactly how and how often teachers should be evaluated on their job performance.
At the front lines of this debate are charter schools, the fastest-growing sector of American education, with two million students now enrolled in more than 5,000 such institutions across the U.S.
Bridgeport Academy Middle School in Bridgeport, Conn., is one of them. Like traditional public schools, it receives per-pupil funds from the state of Connecticut, but is allowed to operate independently from the local district and uses a blind lottery for enrollment. The school is part of the larger nonprofit Achievement First network of 22 charters along the East Coast serving mainly low-income minority students.
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