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On the recordNovember 15, 2011
Did we need to do research to figure out that there are some good teachers and some not-so-good teachers?
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Virginia Foxx questions the necessity of research to identify effective and ineffective teachers.

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