The rush to endorse is unseemly.
Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. And in return, grant schools flexibility: to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn. That’s a bargain worth making. - Barack Obama, SOTUS, 2012
Based on a statement like that, why wouldn’t the NEA endorse President Obama for re-election at our RA last July? Or the AFT endorse him yesterday? Of course the devil is in the details.
Apparently it’s not enough for the Obama administration that standardized test scores are now used to evaluate students, schools, teachers and principals. In a
