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Sunday, July 6, 2014

SKrashen: The Vergara decision: The big picture

SKrashen: The Vergara decision: The big picture:



The Vergara decision: The big picture


Sent to the San Francisco Chronicle
In response to: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/When-kids-sued-and-won-5599200.php

The Vergara decision is part of a movement to eliminate the teaching profession.

The other fronts of this war include the accusation that our schools are failing because of bad teaching, preferential hiring of Teach for America temps, flipped classrooms with most teaching done by computers, the elimination of seniority pay, and evaluation of teachers using test-score gains.

Our unspectacular international test scores are the result of poverty, not teaching quality: The US has the second highest level of child poverty among all 34 economically SKrashen: The Vergara decision: The big picture: