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Through a Task Force, this Web site, an Annual Conference, Case Studies and a National Reform Network, the SMHC action project will share and implement nationwide effective practices to recruit, train, retain and reward top teacher and school administrator talent. SMHC's core resources: The Odden/Kelly paper defining SMHC, a paper on talent management in the private sector, case studies on leading-edge SMHC practices and a set of papers on teacher compensation.

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Entrepreneurs in Chicago

Posted on August 28th, 2008 by arodden

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The recent NPR report on the improvements in the Chicago Public Schools underscores the importance of recruiting and retaining top teacher and principal talent as a foundation for implementing a variety of curriculum, instructional and school governance changes that together are producing handsome improvements in student learning. Claudio Sanchez reports that, “The Chicago public schools were once considered the worst urban school system in America. Now, they are perhaps the nation’s biggest laboratory for school reform. The city has turned over large parts of the system to groups of education entrepreneurs.”