GETTING REAL & GETTING SMART -- The Teachers' Voice in Educational Policymaking MetLife Fellows Report on How to Improve Student Achievement, is now available online.

The document, released by the National Teacher Policy Institute, a project of IMPACT II-The Teachers Network, is its first-year culmination report based on the Institute's year-long research.

We are featuring four essays from that report by Los Angeles Unified School District teacher Ken Barker, who teaches English at Sylmar High School.

Listen in on comments from Southern California educators who attended the National Educational Computing Conference.

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