Teaching as a Profession
Posted by Dana Bennis in on Oct 22, 2012 - 12:08 PM
In a column in yesterday's NY Times, Tom Friedman praises the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top program as having raised the level of the teaching profession. In Friedman's words, Race to the Top gave funding to states that met the expectations of the DOE, including developing:
...systems for teacher and principal evaluation and support, as well as systems to reward great teachers, learn from their best practices and move out those at the bottom — essentially systems that help elevate teaching into an attractive profession.
While I find it hard to imagine any profession in which the devising of a high-stakes assessment focused on one narrow criteria