On Trashing Teachers 0
At Science 2.0, Enrico Uva takes a look at teachers and teaching and concludes that much energy is wasted in fixing what ain’t broke.
(1) Improving morale among teachers
(2) improving dismal teacher training
(3) raising hiring standards
(4) and most importantly forming bridges between industry, research and schools.
By scapegoating teachers, politicians divert attention from their failures in supporting and funding (the means by which support is most commonly shown for government services) teachers, even as flocks of administrators, some of whom have no teaching experience and consequently no clues, continue to grow.
Read the whole thing; it’s short.
