RE: American education is a little bound by a misinterpretation of what democracy means:

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In Reply to: American education is a little bound by a misinterpretation of what democracy means: posted by tinear on September 27, 2014 at 11:02:37:

Higher wages is a red-herring.
Here is some insight on what teachers really want: From the Gatesfoundation, which did a HUGE survey of teachers. I think they interviewed or surveyed 40,000 teachers.

2 issues I see are
1. Teacher turnover rates.
2. Teacher burnout.
Other issues include but are not limited to fair evaluations, testing and professionalism.

The publicicty surrounding the odd 'perv' teacher and how difficult it is to be RID of 'em distracts from the overall issue of teacher turnover. Most teachers that quit the profession 'self terminate'. Many teachers / principles I spoke with would counsil an underperforming teacher to do something else. It IS true that many 'burnouts' remain in the profession past their effective time.

I've seen several instances of organized 'Professional Learning Community' having huge positive impacts and taking teachers from run-of-the-mill to Excel. However, all the teacher / district contracts I've read Expressly Forbid using such membership as an evaluative criteria.
Too much is never enough
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/media-center/press-releases/2 (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Education, Student Behavioral Problems, and the Good ol' Days. - jdaniel@jps.net 08:29:52 09/27/14 (7)

American education is a little bound by a misinterpretation of what democracy means: - tinear 11:02:37 09/27/14 (4)

That's just not factually accurate tinear . . . - JoshT 20:44:54 09/27/14 (1)

No, I speak truth. For one thing, Finland and Norway have FAR lower poverty rates. Tell me a kid's parental - tinear 20:58:10 09/27/14 (0)

RE: American education is a little bound by a misinterpretation of what democracy means: - pictureguy 11:57:24 09/27/14 (0)

It's a calling. You should be proud to teach for less. - free.ranger 11:22:20 09/27/14 (0)

Admittedly... - b.l.zeebub 09:49:11 09/27/14 (1)

RE: Admittedly... - kavakidd 15:21:39 09/27/14 (0)

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RE: American education is a little bound by a misinterpretation of what democracy means: - pictureguy 11:57:24 09/27/14 (0)

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