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The same can be said of Andrew Rotherham.
Robert King continues his excellent series about the kindergarteners at Indianapolis School 61 this week in Secrets of Success. King writes that "two factors seem to connect these success stories: involvement in a preschool program, or a parent and/or other adult at home who took the time to work with them before they entered kindergarten" as he profiles eight success stories.
Previous articles in the series include:
A kindergarten’s revolving door at Indianapolis Public School 61
IPS kids repeat kindergarten at a high rate, but does it help?
Kindergartners’ 1st test shows who’s set to read
A difficult start for one child at IPS School 61
Challenges clear for School 61 kindergartners
Playing it smart
Thank Steve Wood over at Educator’s News for the summary and links.
As you read the stories, forget about reform/TFA-Good or Evil/Rhee-Liar or God and think of the people in the stories and their work and lies.
Phillip:
Only you would find an article that made light of the fact that some schools are failing students by reminding us that real people are working in these classrooms, and that’s enough for us to pause and rethink reform. Awesome. Everyone, be sure to remind your boss that you are a human being struggling to do good the next time he gives you a poor performance evaluation. Maybe that will confuse him long enough for you to change the subject.
“The same can be said of Andrew Rotherham.”
What exactly can be said? That he’s not remembering that teachers are real people that have difficult jobs?
“As you read the stories, forget about reform/TFA-Good or Evil/Rhee-Liar or God and think of the people in the stories and their work and lies.”
Yes, because we will better help our students the less we think about how to improve their teachers and schools.
You are destined for great things at The Answer Sheet. Not here.
the teacher now is not compatibility in student
I agree that the educational system in this country is not working. There are many reasons for the decline in the quality of education. Some things that are negatively impacting the educational system are declining test scores, cuts in educational funding, very few available resources in inner city schools, a lack of parental involvement, and teachers experiencing burnout. Due to overwhelming stress, a lack of continual professional development and unattainable expectations, teachers are becoming complacent and nonchalant. Also, relationships between principals, educators, students, parents and communities are weakening. There is no longer a sense of community. Teaching is complex. Without us, there would be no doctors, lawyers, engineers, or other professions, but we are the lowest paid and often, the hardest workers. Until the entire educational system is revamped and our legislators make education a priority, we will continue to see a decline in the quality of education that our children are receiving. The success of education relies upon building quality partnerships. It is not about one teacher, one principal, one school, one textbook or even one student. It is about the collaboration of everything and everyone for the benefit of all. Disparages in the level of education that is being taught in both public and private schools in this country is alarming. Until we as educators share ideas, network, and advocate on the half of our students to work together to close that gap, students (who hold the key to the world’s success) will be lost.
The evaluation process that is used by most districts to not fully provide for the true success that educators bring each day to their profession. Most of the evaluation process focuses mostly on what we did not do, rather than what we accomplished. This process brings a negative connotation to the job that we do each day as teachers. Teachers are constantly asked to offer positive feedback to our students, so it would just make sense for teachers to be positively evaluated.
More from Indiana.
Have you heard Indiana’s schools are failing? It’s a lie
Undoubtly, the fellatio graduate will come out and disparage Ms Salter based upon his unsuccessful two year stint in TFA.
Another fun read from Phillip.
1) You really don’t need to quote every article you see in its entirety; the link is quite enough.
2) What is the “mess” we are referring to here?
“The “mess,” as detailed on the slide, was a litany of failures. Among them: 23,000 third-graders who can’t read at grade level; 25,000 drop-outs every year; and half the state’s schools that failed to meet federal improvement standards in English or math.
Also on his “mess” list was the de-ghoster, along with a system that bases teacher pay and tenure on seniority rather than performance.”
(http://newsandtribune.com/local/x1293920040/Dwindling-dollars-may-shape-education-reform )
Asserting that the governor is focusing too much on the negative is missing the point, given that there is enough negative for us to worry about. Painting a rosy picture of the system there with the positives will do nothing to further help schools and students. The latter *will*, however, make us feel better about ourselves, and of course that’s more important than fixing schools, yes?
3) What’s more, your editorialist’s positives she offers are essentially, “we’re failing about as much as everyone else!” If this is your rallying cry, good luck to you.
4) The $94 million spent on “ghosts” *is* a glaring example of waste, even if there was a reason to institute the wasteful measure in the first place. Allocating funding based on where kids *used* to attend is a policy that helps the adults more than the children, by allowing staffs to retain teachers and programs while a smaller group of students gets to benefit from them. There are likely better ways this funding can be utilized.
5) Finally, this editorial is also from the same author as your last one, which was similarly worthless:
https://www.eduwonk.com/2010/12/more-teacher-voice-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-214174
Phillip humorously asserts that I am “disparag[ing] Ms Salter” when I show that her editorials are oblivious to facts and dripping with shoddy argumentation, and I agree. He also makes another reference to sex, which is getting kind of creepy at this point.