REAL REFORM for Holding Teachers Accountable
This is my response to the Times-Picayune editorial of September 17 - "Holding Louisiana teachers accountable: An editorial" I have asked for guest editorial space in the newspaper. . .
Every classroom should have well-educated, professional teachers, and school systems should recruit, prepare and retain teachers who are qualified to do the job. These are three sorely lacking practices in Louisiana's current "reform" design for K-12 education.
American public schools generally do a poor job of systematically developing their teachers after placement. On the contrary, our state policymakers hang on to the erroneous belief that teachers will be more motivated to