Good piece! As teacher’s union member in Massachusetts at the beginning of the high stakes testing debate in ’97, a member shared an interesting response to NCLB: NTLS (No Teacher Left Standing).
🙂 I wrote a later section for my book entitled No Consultant Left Behind; over the years bent to NCLB and then R2T, our low-income schools were simply inundated with educational “experts” — all looking to keep their jobs by punitively interfering, no matter their title or job-description.
I hear you! Most do power grabs, hang for a net, leave when they screw up, but many still collect their pension! Unfortunately, it’s most urban schools that receive the short end of the stick. And with a space left open, here comes the charter schools….
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Your personal style of telling the story, of what it meant to teach, is so interesting. Great writing!
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Thank you. Kind of like that bunny in the battery commercials, I guess the teacher in me just keeps on going. 🙂
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Good piece! As teacher’s union member in Massachusetts at the beginning of the high stakes testing debate in ’97, a member shared an interesting response to NCLB: NTLS (No Teacher Left Standing).
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🙂 I wrote a later section for my book entitled No Consultant Left Behind; over the years bent to NCLB and then R2T, our low-income schools were simply inundated with educational “experts” — all looking to keep their jobs by punitively interfering, no matter their title or job-description.
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I hear you! Most do power grabs, hang for a net, leave when they screw up, but many still collect their pension! Unfortunately, it’s most urban schools that receive the short end of the stick. And with a space left open, here comes the charter schools….
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