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  2. Praxis test - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A Praxis test is one of a series of American teacher certification exams written and administered by the Educational Testing Service. Various Praxis tests are usually required before, during, and after teacher training courses in the U.S. To be a teacher in about half of the states in the US, the Praxis test is required.

  3. Teacher Eligibility Test - Wikipedia

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    The Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Board (UPBEB) [12] holds its TET examinations Uttar Pradesh teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) once a year to select primary and junior teachers. The UPTET written exam comprises two papers: Paper I: for primary level teachers; Paper II: for junior level teachers; Candidates may sit either or both papers. In 2021 ...

  4. Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Wikipedia

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    Michael Richard Baksa testified. He was the Dover Area School District Assistant Superintendent. In an email response to a complaint by social studies teacher Brad Neal, Baksa referred to The Myth of Separation by David Barton, a book Baksa had received from Superintendent Richard Nilsen, who had received it from board member Alan Bonsell. The ...

  5. Case study - Wikipedia

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    A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context. [1] [2] For example, case studies in medicine may focus on an individual patient or ailment; case studies in business might cover a particular firm's strategy or a broader market; similarly, case studies in politics can range from a narrow happening over time like the operations of a ...

  6. Teacher - Wikipedia

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    A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. Informally the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. when showing a colleague how to perform a specific task). In some countries, teaching young people of school age ...

  7. Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 decision Plessy v.

  8. No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia

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    Education researchers Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob argue that NCLB showed statistically significant positive impact on students' performance on 4th-grade math exams (equal to two-thirds of a year's worth of growth), smaller and statistically insignificant improvements in 8th-grade math exam performance, and no discernible improvement in reading ...

  9. Case method - Wikipedia

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    The case method is a teaching approach that uses decision-forcing cases to put students in the role of people who were faced with difficult decisions at some point in the past. It developed during the course of the twentieth-century from its origins in the casebook method of teaching law pioneered by Harvard legal scholar Christopher C. Langdell.