Monday, August 15, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Does Earning Tenure Make a Teacher "Worse"?

Jersey Jazzman: Does Earning Tenure Make a Teacher "Worse"?

Does Earning Tenure Make a Teacher "Worse"?

One of the few good things to come out of yesterday's Stronger America special on MSNBC was that it provided a forum so we can catalog all of the blindly accepted assumptions "reformers" make about schools and teachers:

"There are too many bad teachers."

"College teacher preparation programs aren't working."

"We need lots of technology in schools to get kids ready for the 'real world.'"

"Merit pay works, because it's logical." (It's as logical as believing in fairies)

"All children have equal potential to go to college." (This one I love. The same people who claim this will claim in