What makes a great teacher?
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Ckaris Williams prepares her classroom at Douglass Elementary School in Houston, Texas.
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Amid all the debate over how to improve education in America, there's one point on which most everyone can agree: We need good teachers. But what makes a great teacher? A group of education experts gathered at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival to discuss that question.
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