It's important to understand the functions of tenure. Traditionally, tenure was a means of ensuring academic freedom to professors doing research in universities. This academic freedom is essential at the cutting edge of knowledge, but how controversial can K-12 topics be?
K-12 tenure essentially serves as a form of compensation; teachers will accept lower wages in exchange for security. This reduces the accounting cost, but forces the real cost of (potentially) lower quality on students.
Interesting that Haslam's State of the State mentioned videos re: exceptional teaching and Frist utilizes video to make the case for excellence in education but everyone is obsessed with having a live teacher in the same classroom as every student rather than giving every kid access to an archive of great educators. Results-only learning environments demand that we reconsider EVERY ASSUMPTION about what makes up a quality learning environment.
It's important to understand the functions of tenure. Traditionally, tenure was a means of ensuring academic freedom to professors doing research in universities. This academic freedom is essential at the cutting edge of knowledge, but how controversial can K-12 topics be?
K-12 tenure essentially serves as a form of compensation; teachers will accept lower wages in exchange for security. This reduces the accounting cost, but forces the real cost of (potentially) lower quality on students.
RickW05 11 months ago
Interesting that Haslam's State of the State mentioned videos re: exceptional teaching and Frist utilizes video to make the case for excellence in education but everyone is obsessed with having a live teacher in the same classroom as every student rather than giving every kid access to an archive of great educators. Results-only learning environments demand that we reconsider EVERY ASSUMPTION about what makes up a quality learning environment.
DoddsEd 11 months ago