One Education Report, Two Contradictory Stories

It was an accident, I promise. I was not looking for this!

States fall short on teacher quality
Having missed one deadline already, states still face an enormous challenge in putting qualified teachers in all major classes, a federal review says.

Some states are in much better shape than others, the Education Department said Wednesday. Most meet only some criteria in required new plans. Four fail altogether.

Under the No Child Left Behind law, states were supposed to have highly qualified teachers in every core academic class by the end of the last school year. None made it.
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Most States Pass Federal Review on Highly Qualified Teachers
The vast majority of states are well on their way to plans that federal officials contend will soon put a qualified teacher at the head of every academic class, including ones in schools with poor records of student achievement.
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The first paper was the Boston Globe. The second is Education Week. Both stories were linked from the EdWeek site.

Amazing. And standard operating procedure.