Just ask Randi Weingarten -- schools, teachers and their unions could all learn from the NFL
Tuesday, January 4th 2011, 4:00 AM
It was Randi Weingarten, former head of the city's teachers union and current head of the American Federation of Teachers, who said it.
In an interview with Newsweek - a joint sitdown with billionaire and school reformer Bill Gates - Weingarten followed Gates' statement that "We need to measure what [teachers] do, and then have incentives for the other teachers to learn those things" with this observation:
"Football teams do this all the time. They look at the tape after every game. Sometimes they do it during the game. They're constantly deconstructing what is working and what isn't working. And they're jettisoning what isn't working and building up on what is working, and doing it in a teamlike approach. We never do that investment in public schooling."
Absolutely right - and New York schools could well emulate the NFL by recording model
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