Merit of teachers’ ‘highly qualified’ designation questioned by experts

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Students in suburban Maryland schools are more likely now than they were six years ago to be taught by a teacher deemed “highly qualified” but experts worry the designation may be misleading and meaningless.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools face punishments for not getting all of their teachers to the “highly qualified” label.

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