Fourteen reasons schools are troubled (and no, it’s not all about teachers) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Fourteen reasons schools are troubled (and no, it’s not all about teachers) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Fourteen reasons schools are troubled (and no, it’s not all about teachers)

by Valerie Straus

This was written by Ronald Willett, a former university professor, researcher and administrator, and former corporate executive, entrepreneur and CEO. For the last decade, as an avocation, he has tracked and researched U.S. K-12, and advocated its legitimate reform and pursuit of innovation.
By Ronald Willett

It is both bizarre and egregious to see a big lie used in the movement to allegedly reform America’s public K-12 schools: That is, America’steachers are the fulcrum and sole arbiters of whether U.S. public K-12 education is working.

Some underprepared and underperforming teachers are undoubtedly in the roster of causal factors for schools’ learning deficits. Juxtaposed against approximately 3.5 million U.S. human resources practicing the profession just in K-12, and the propositions by J. C. F. Gauss, it is