Friday, January 25, 2013

SCHOOL REFORM BLASTED BY EPSTEIN AND TWO OTHER TEACHERS

In arguably his sharpest critique to date, my colleague, Absent Teacher Reserve Marc Epstein slams education reform in his latest post at Huffington.

In another article, Will Johnson describes the horrors of working in a New York City top rated school under the business model.

Finally, life under the new evaluation system upstate is described by teacher Jacqueline J. Goegen in the Buffalo News. She works in a district where she says they are supportive of teachers.  Imagine what the evaluation system will be like in NYC where the atmosphere is not exactly teacher friendly.

You think Gothamschools will link to any of these pieces?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The answer to your question is no.

Anonymous said...

James,

The Will Johnson paper is brilliant. Every teacher should get a copy of it. This is the type of intelligence that should prompt comments, but it won't, unfortunately because it's too deep, to truthful.

I have passed that on to our colleagues on the university level and have had deep discussions recognizing the need for unions to exist.

Thank you for that link.