Firing Teachers ... or Improving Teaching?
In Rhode Island, they fired an entire high school of teachers because of poor student test scores and a perceived unwillingness to change. In Florida, the legislature is now moving forward with plans to eliminate job security for teachers, essentially putting them on year-to-year contracts. Center for American Progress researchers arewriting about the need to fire bad teachers if we are to improve public education. And officials at The New Teacher Project and Education Trust are calling for an end to last hired, first fired and an collective wave bu-bye to poor teachers in California.
And earlier this year, riding the wave of Race to the Top and the U.S. Department of Education's four education improvement pillars, even the American Federation of Teachers got into the discussion, advocating for greater adoption of teacher performance measures (albeit at a much less high-stakes way than CAP, TNTP, or EdTrust may call for).
Teacher quality is quickly become issue (and public enemy) number one in education reform debates. For decades now, we have said that teachers are the most important component to school success. You couldn't
And earlier this year, riding the wave of Race to the Top and the U.S. Department of Education's four education improvement pillars, even the American Federation of Teachers got into the discussion, advocating for greater adoption of teacher performance measures (albeit at a much less high-stakes way than CAP, TNTP, or EdTrust may call for).
Teacher quality is quickly become issue (and public enemy) number one in education reform debates. For decades now, we have said that teachers are the most important component to school success. You couldn't