Sentences with phrase «professional education reformers»

It is clear, however, that testing — particularly the high - stakes use of test results to reward or penalize students and teachers — has few friends outside the ranks of professional education reformers.

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The Patriots and the «Unpopular Stuff» of Excellence, February 2, 2017: As the Patriots prepare to play for the Super Bowl on Sunday, it seems especially timely to reflect again on some critical insights education reformers can gather from professional football.

Instead, Malloy's Commissioner of Education has been turning his back on the professional staff in the Department of Education and shifting scarce resources to more and more often to out - of - state consultants and inexperienced education rEducation has been turning his back on the professional staff in the Department of Education and shifting scarce resources to more and more often to out - of - state consultants and inexperienced education rEducation and shifting scarce resources to more and more often to out - of - state consultants and inexperienced education reducation reformers.

My professional life is dedicated to education with a specific focus on children living and learning in poverty — which I suspect is not the focus on the new reformers.

Furthermore, as Brooks says, his serious education reformers rely on partisan think tanks for validation, as clowns would (clowns upon clowns, of course) instead of on professional organizations (the AAUP comes to mind) where real understanding of needs and possibilities lie:

The trouble with standardized test scores, how American teachers are not supported, why we don't invest in professional development for teachers, the complexity of the American education system and why reformers -LSB-...]

In the coming weeks we'll dig even deeper into this absurd plan, but if you want to get a basic primary on how the education reformers are wasting our tax dollars, undermining the teaching professional and destroying our public schools, I urge you to start by reading — and then re-reading Wendy Lecker's great piece.

The trouble with standardized test scores, how American teachers are not supported, why we don't invest in professional development for teachers, the complexity of the American education system and why reformers don't like it, what school bureaucracy protects, the «brand: problems with public schools, why anti public school mythology is self fulfilling prophecy, how the idea of Charter Schools mutated and speaking out for Public Schools.

So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again for all that you and Education Post do to «honor teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from publicEducation Post do to «honor teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from publiceducation today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.