NYC and LAUSD Public Schools- The Coast to Coast Homogeneity of Purposefully Failed Public Education by Susan Lee Schwartz
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
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Why I wrote this letter to The NY Times.
Recently, The NY Times began to report on education news that was not the same-old spin about those 'bad' teachers -- rants about balancing budgets by firing senior teachers so the 'best' new hires could be kept. I read one oped column examining the principal's role in failing schools, and another that acknowledged that evaluations based on the subjective criteria a boss creates eliminates good people from any workplace -- something that is THE process used to remove top practitioners from schools. This week, I read a wonderful essay by Bob Herbert about the lack of critical thinking skills in graduating college students, and one by Michale Winerap describing how great