These sections of the federal law place identifying and addressing childhood trauma and other variables
linked to poverty alongside policy options for recruiting and retaining
effective teachers and
school leaders, maximizing the impact of early childhood education, using data to improve student achievement, and serving students with disabilities.
Responding to research from Stanford University's John W. Gardner Center
linking student opinions and perceptions to their own academic outcomes, the Center for
Effective Philanthropy — funded by a host of donors, including the Gates, Hewlett and Wallace foundations — created YouthTruth «to better understand from students what was and was not working in their high
schools in order to give
school and district
leaders, as well as education funders, better information to inform improvement efforts.»
The law does continue a separate, competitive funding program, the Teacher and
School Leader Incentive Fund, to allow states, school districts, or non-profits or for - profits in partnership with a state or school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher perfor
School Leader Incentive Fund, to allow states,
school districts, or non-profits or for - profits in partnership with a state or school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher perfor
school districts, or non-profits or for - profits in partnership with a state or
school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher perfor
school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about
effective and fair ways of
linking student performance to teacher performance.