The HFT Is All About Professional Growth… Not
by Frederick M. Hess • Aug 31, 2010 at 9:28 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
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I'm always surprised at how often teacher unions claiming to be agents of professionalism reflexively slash at measures (like responsibility for results and differentiated pay) that are part and parcel of most professions. Even so, it's not every day that you see a union savaging an effort to promote professional growth as an anti-teacher conspiracy. Welcome to Houston Independent School District, where HISD superintendent Terry Grier is being mauled by the Houston Federation of Teachers... for proposing that principals work with all of their teachers to craft professional growth plans.
Yeah, I'm scratching my head too. What's got the HFT really worked up is Grier's proposal for "individual
