Michelle rhee cheating scandal in 1972
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If you turn on the TV these days, you’re bound to come across a news program talking about education reform. You’ll see at least five talking heads &#; not one of whom is an actual school teacher.
And no one thinks there’s anything wrong with that.
You’ll find actors, sports stars, politicians, hedge fund managers, vulture capitalists, economists&#; anyone but a living, breathing educator. If you’re lucky, you might find someone like Michelle Rhee who taught for about three years before becoming a professional education reformer and then was embroiled in various cheating scandals.
Would we find this acceptable if it were in other fields? I wonder if a panel on medical reform held without a single doctor would have the same gravitas. Maybe a discussion on safe ways to fly an airplane without any airplane pilots would be well received. ‘Laws Without Lawyers’ would sure be an informative talk! Heck! We even hire ex-athletes and coaches to go on ESPN and talk about the games they, themselves, played and/or coached!
Only in the field of education do we find The Professional completely superfluous. Much has been made of the public’s disregard for teachers: the idea that since you’ve graduated high school, you know what it means to be a teacher. You don’
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Valerie Strauss has raised a key problem with the education reform movement in the U.S.: The central experts in the education system, teachers, are essentially ignored.
I have a long history now of rejecting the charter school movement and the &#;no excuses&#; ideology that is driving many charter schools. Because of my position, I have been criticized for not visiting KIPP schools and I have detailed why that falls short against my central point about the racism and classism inherent in &#;no excuses&#; ideology.
So I want to offer a connection between my position on charters and &#;no excuses&#; with listening to a teacher.
I received an unsolicited email from a teacher who has recently taught in a &#;no excuses&#; charter school; this is the teacher&#;s central point:
Their system does not work. Their philosophy is to teach the kids over extended hours at school. We taught from every day. The teachers have added responsibilities on top of those hours. Then most children went to after school care where they continued teaching and received dinner [1]. Guess what our report card score is? It&#;s an F.
The children were worn out all the time. The parents expected us to take care of the children no matter what. One day I had a parent not pick up their child and I was e
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Mississippi Malarkey
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