The NEA’s Van Roekel and TFA’s Kopp on teacher quality. That’s reaching deep. « Fred Klonsky

The NEA’s Van Roekel and TFA’s Kopp on teacher quality. That’s reaching deep. « Fred Klonsky:

The NEA’s Van Roekel and TFA’s Kopp on teacher quality. That’s reaching deep.

by Fred Klonsky

Teach for America’s Wendy Kopp, NEA’s Dennis Van Roekel’s new best friend.

I had some friends get down on me a few weeks ago when I criticized the NEA leadership, President Dennis Van Roekel in particuluar, for the NEA’s commission or committee or whatever the hell it was on teacher quality.

Egged on by such anti-union stalwarts as the American Enterprise Institute’s Fred Hess, the commission’s report fed perfectly into the corporate reformer’s critique of public education: The problem is the teachers. We’re