?We used Katrina as an opportunity to build?not rebuild, but build?a new school system.''
?Paul Vallas, Superintendent of the Recovery School District in New Orleans
?Necessity is the Mother of Invention,? Newsweek
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The percentage of people who expressed support for ?basing a teacher's salary, in part, on his or her students' academic progress on state tests',? in a 2010 survey conducted for Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance and Education Next; this percentage is up 5 points since 2007.
?Teachers, Public Sharply Divided on Key Issues,? The Boston Globe