An Ed Politics Hat Trick, And Edujobs
From the WSJ – Common Core, shaken or stirred? Significant politics there. And NYT checks in on CT outcomes. You can go home again! Joe Williams takes on the UFT in the Daily News.
It got even harder to get anything done in Washington last night.
Students First is looking for Teacher Fellows. Deadline is 5/23.
May 9th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
Meanwhile, from those who on a daily basis educate the children of this country, we have this:
May 10th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
This discussion can only be valid if the following hypothesis is part of the debate:
1.To accurately measure the success of public education as an effective model, tenure must be removed and and pensions cannot be guaranteed by the taxpayer’s checkbook.
2.Teacher accountability based on student success can only be an effective measure if all schools are self-selecting.
3.The current funding model based on ADA must be radically overhauled. If not, administrators will always have the ethical battle between keeping a low performing and/or disruptive student in class to keep the ADA funding instead of removing the student.
4. Public education needs to be a privilege and not a guarantee.
5. Bring back the career technical education pathway as alternate choice to a purely academic pathway.