Race to the Top - Pt. 3: Teacher Unions: Friend or Foe?

[SableYork]

"To base a teacher's evaluation and their worth as an education on how much their students grow... It just doesn't work that way" ~Teacher's Union Leader <-- How should it?

How is sitting at a table and saying I trust you, you trust me, any semeblance of a system of accountability?

[shellouise]

Right wing propaganda. Keep right it America and soon no one with any brains, talent, or the requisite commitment will choose to enter teaching. Until you get serious about eliminating poverty, you will see serious achievement problems in those children who are its victims. You are asking public educators to fix what you refuse to fix because you refuse to pay for the price. There is no magic wand America. Thank God I am not a teacher! Thank God my daughter rejected this choice.