School Tech Connect: A Great Post By Anthony Cody:
by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)
The great Anthony Cody has published a
deadly accurate column over at
Edweek, and Valerie Strauss has
picked it up, too. It's really quite devastating but you should go read it. There's this:
I do not think teachers in many states quite understand how the profession is being transformed. And our unions are, in some cases, negotiating these agreements into place.
He's right. There's a good chance that if you're an educator, you probably belong to an association that started out as a union but now exists to promote the idea that the people in your profession (
ie, you) aren't good enough at what they do.
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I've worked in one school that was eventually rubbed out because of AYP failure, and I've been paying attention to what's going on here in Chicago, so I feel like I have a bit of an idea about the great undoing of