In most careers, professionals gradually gain increased
autonomy over a number of years, learning
from more experienced employees and progressively demonstrating their capacity to take on more
significant tasks.
She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no
significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far
from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the
autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains
from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.