EDUCATION REFORM
This past month has seen a great deal of discussion about "education reform" in the national media.Oprah. NBC. Bill Gates. Even Mark Zuckerberg. Everyone seems to have an idea about how we should improve our public education system. Waiting for Superman has shaken the public awake, offering a glimpse into some of the problems with our system, but it does so at the expense of public school teachers, our union and our students. It ignores the vast majority of the realities in order to focus on charter schools. Traditional public schools - along with their students and their teachers - are strangely absent.
Day in and day out educators are doing their best for their students with far fewer resources and overcrowded classrooms. Instead of pointing the finger and casting stones, especially when research proves these "reforms" ineffective, we should be working together to not only reform our public schools, but to improve our public schools.
