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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The rush to endorse is unseemly. « Fred Klonsky

The rush to endorse is unseemly. « Fred Klonsky:

The rush to endorse is unseemly.

Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. And in return, grant schools flexibility: to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn. That’s a bargain worth making. - Barack Obama, SOTUS, 2012

Based on a statement like that, why wouldn’t the NEA endorse President Obama for re-election at our RA last July? Or the AFT endorse him yesterday? Of course the devil is in the details.

Here are some:

Apparently it’s not enough for the Obama administration that standardized test scores are now used to evaluate students, schools, teachers and principals. In a