meeting last year, twr (inaudible) presented a lot of very detailed data comparing teach for america teachers performance with non-teach for america teacher performance and the results were similar and you could not say that the teach for america was a silver bullet and what was pointed out to us by solomen was that one of the differences was that it provides first year teacher training and coaching. and so, what i would like to ask is, given the concerns that are expressed by my colleagues that we have a report, in the same perhaps in the personnel committee of this program of mlk and included in the compile of the best practices for successful talent management, i would like to see, what things can we learn that is successful, in terms of retention and including a bigger investment in first year teachers and coaching because these are the elements of successful teaching and teacher training. so my request is that a report on this program, on this contract, be made at personnel community in the spring. >> you are saying that you would like direction from the board at that meeting. >> right. >> and i wan

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. >> michel, america's most precious capital is its children, so why doesn't merit evaluation and merit pay apply to teachers? and why aren't poorly performing teachers removed, in your opinion? >> you know, it's a tough thing to understand why this goes on. because it defies all common sense. >> everybody in the august the most people in the audience have held all types of jobs. merit evaluation is the way of life, whichever way you cut it, and especially in something so important did with children to why is there so much resistance to merit evaluation? >> i can tell you from having run a school district for three and a half years that, much of the education community is allergic to the idea of accountability. people want to say, well, you can't hold us accountable for this reason, for that reason, because of the other reason, and i think it's extraordinarily problematic. so i don't know exactly why but let me tell you how i think we have got to change this. .. change this, i now live halftime in california which is one of the most difficult states to get anything done with education reform. there was an episode that happened in a public sc

america learn from it and did the best we can to make sure it gets out there. this includes an organization in the philippines that is enabling teachers to send performance data directly to the department of education through text messaging. i don't know when earning with your geeky guys told him about that. now in order to ensure we're delivering against the goals we set for sales are also deploying creative and innovative ways to monitor this work. and i'm pleased that some of the new techniques are borrowed from the office of transition initiatives. i had a chance this pleasure to visit mogadishu. the first major us-visit mogadishu that was at least publicized in quite some time. 20 plus years they told me when i went. the first their forgetting kid, girls in particular in school, quickly as a sign that peace and stability can quickly lead to changes in people's self experience. that's what president shaikh has at the top of his list. because of when you get those kids in school right away, then we see with peace and governance comes some real benefits that will pay off over time. and nothing is more powerful than the human aspiration to have their child lead a bet