Teach for America was no longer about filling a great,
unmet need for teachers.
Not exact matches
What a gift
for a
teacher to be able to help her students who are having an argument on the playground to identify their feelings and
unmet needs, to see that we have a universal vocabulary of feelings that are web of strength, not a weapon of name calling and division.
Perhaps the most pervasive
unmet need in our K — 12 schools today,
for both
teachers and students, is to feel socially, emotionally, intellectually, and physically safe.
And when it comes to the relationship between the Common Core, Common Core testing and the
teacher evaluation systems, those who are responsible
for speaking up
for our children, our
teachers and our schools simply say enough is enough and corporate education reform initiatives
need to be dismissed and real action taken to reduce the barriers to academic success — poverty, language barriers, and
unmet special education
needs to name a few.
Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers,
unmet special education
needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents,
teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies
for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.