Teachers Under Attack
The Walton Family: Welfare Frauds and Destroyers of Public Education
The Walton Family: Welfare Frauds and Destroyers of Public Education
TEACHERS UNDER ATTACK
Arne Duncan spoke with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell last month. The interview was proof that the privatization of public education and the destruction of the teaching profession is a bipartisan effort. The liberal leaning MSNBC interviewer jumped right on the privatization bandwagon by blaming bad teachers for the nation’s low scores on international tests. The four minute interview focused on how to make better teachers (defined as those who will raise student test scores) with not one word about how poverty affects education, what the administration is doing to improve the lives of the nearly 25% of American children who live in poverty, or how out-of-school factors account for a much larger effect on student achievement than do teachers.
Duncan, in his usual speed-talking style, rattled on about how we have to elevate the profession…and indicated just how deep is his ignorance about how teachers are educated by implying that teachers need clinical experience before they start teaching…like the medical model. Perhaps he doesn’t know about teaching interns and student teaching.
This is the same person, btw, who touts Teach for America with its five weeks 2014 Medley #11 | Live Long and Prosper: