What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education? | Alternet

What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education? | Alternet:

What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education?

It's time to get rid of the wrongheaded way we evaluate teachers and educate them for the classroom.

August 1, 2012  |  

 

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The last decade has included some powerful and harsh narratives about U.S. public education and its teachers: Public schools are failing, particularly in international comparisons; that failure is primarily caused by“bad” teachers and corrupt teachers’ unions; and teacher education, historically weak, does little to help correct the low quality of the teacher workforce.

Yet, my nearly three decades in education—18 years teaching high school English in rural South Carolina and 10 years in teacher education—and as an education