John Ewing: We Should Listen to the Real Education Experts: Teachers
John Ewing, a mathematician and president of Math for America, wrote in Forbes about a conference he recently attended about education. He noticed that none of the experts at the conference were teachers. When he asked the conference leader, his question was dismissed.
He remembered that Mike Rose had done a check of articles in the “New Yorker.” Most of the articles about medicine were written by doctors. None of the articles about education were.
Ewing maintains that teachers should make major policy decisions, not politicians. I say, “Hurray for John Ewing!” (By the way, he wrote one of the best takedown of value-added assessment of teachers published anywhere, in 2011, called “Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data.”)
Ewing writes:
Teachers are the ones who drive reform forward, not policy makers. Should teachers weigh in on issues that CONTINUE READING: John Ewing: We Should Listen to the Real Education Experts: Teachers | Diane Ravitch's blog