A teacher makes 2019 education predictions — some he 'desperately’ hopes won’t come true
This is the eighth year that I am publishing veteran teacher Larry Ferlazzo’s education predictions for the coming year — and, frankly, some of them are bold, if not scary. (You can see his predictions from earlier years at the bottom of this post.) I don’t quite agree with all of them, but it’s not my list, it’s his! Let him know what you think in the comments.
Ferlazzo teaches English and social studies at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento. He has written nine books on education, writes a teacher advice blog for Education Week Teacher and has a popular resource-sharing blog.
By Larry Ferlazzo
Some of these predictions are educated guesses, some pipe dreams, and some I desperately hope don’t come true. Check them out, let me know which ones are off-base, and share your own!
* Betsy DeVos will be fired as U.S. secretary of education. As President Trump’s poll numbers fall even further through the floor as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation continues to reveal damaging information, he will make a desperate attempts to “stem the bleeding.” Since DeVos is perhaps the least popular member of his Cabinet, she — among others — will be jettisoned.
* Teachers unions will begin to lose members overall as a result of the Janus Supreme Court decision. However, they will begin to add new ones as more and more educators in charter schools across the country begin to recognize that they are not being treated fairly and vote to unionize.
* Public education advocates will renew a push for increased school funding in many parts of the country where they were not successful in the November 2018 election. And in places where teachers are even stronger than before, they will initiate new efforts to gain more resources. Unfortunately, though, the first obvious signs of a new recession will begin to hit in August, and the bad news will short-circuit many of those efforts.
* Who isn’t tired of savior (generally white savior) teacher movies? Well, a different kind of educator will be featured in the upcoming “Wrong Answer” movie, directed by Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan and with a script written by Ta-Nehisi Coates . It should finally be filmed and released in 2019 to widespread CONTINUE READING: A teacher makes 2019 education predictions — some he 'desperately’ hopes won’t come true - The Washington Post
