Relay Graduate School is NOT the way to train teachers (By Carol Burris)
Today’s initial Wait, What? post was entitled, Relay Graduate School of Education – Illegal lobbying marks effort to undermine Connecticut’s teacher certification law.
For more information about Relay School of Education, the Wait, What? post also pointed readers to fellow education advocate Wendy Lecker’s piece entitled, Drive up education degree is an insult to every student, parent, teacher and taxpayer
The following commentary piece provides additional background about the faux education graduate program run by the corporate education reform group known as Relay School of Education.
The article first appeared in the Washington Post in 2012. It was written by Carol Corbett Burris who served as the principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State. Ms. Burris is now the Executive Director of the Network for Public Education. (See http://networkforpubliceducation.org/)
Carol Burris wrote,
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” I keep this quote on my desk. No one knows who authored it — it is often misattributed to William Butler Yeats. Whoever created it was wise indeed for those whose vocation is educating students upon hearing it, recognize its truth.An isolated shot of a bucket of sand for the childrens play time either onRelay Graduate School is NOT the way to train teachers (By Carol Burris) - Wait What?: