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View ArticleThe Joel Klein Model of Public Service: Abandon It to Destroy It
Joel Klein was the lead prosecutor in the antitrust case against Microsoft, working from the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department under Clinton. Now Klein is Executive Vice President of News...
View ArticleTeaches should participate in Social Security
Teachers unions serve a role that has fallen upon them by default: to improve the quality of education through the direct observations and suggestions of good teachers. We should work to reduce the...
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Excellent comment as usual. It has long been the case that the current generation thinks the next generation in inferior to theirs, plus, their music sucks. Perhaps the best example occurred in 1957...
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The "reformers" claim that the US is inferior to other countries in education, but then they ignore what other countries actually do. The leading countries do not have privatized systems and many of...
View Articlemost of the world segregates students by ability
This very efficient trick gets a highly productive blue collar workforce, since training begins early, and high scores for the subset of students who take the standardized tests. It is win*win, but...
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"If this is the big problem with our schools then we should expect places like Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas to be the models of good education" Another example of why Dean Baker is one of the...
View ArticleResponding to Dave's race to the bottom
Dave, I don't suppose that you plan on replacing the deferred compensation (an agreed cut in current pay in exchange for that cumulative cut plus earnings in the future) that eliminating a defined...
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So these pundits think that the teachers we have are substandard and we can't get good ones unless we're able to fire them more easily. How does that work exactly? They also apparently think that the...
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It's funny how the best performing public schools in the Chicago area all have union teachers. - fuller schmidt
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Of course, Klein was lying through his teeth with the claim that dismissing a teacher for cause costs $300,000. That is conceivable in a single case where the case for cause is less than clear, the...
View ArticleThe "Reformers" are thieves
"(It's probably rude to point out that many of the backers of school reform make their fortune on Wall Street.)" U.S. funding for public schools is $536 Billion/ year. The "reformers" from Wall Street...
View ArticleIt really does strike me as funny
It is striking when people say "we can't recruit the best of the best" but refuse to compensate appropriately for the talent and skillsets they request. The starting salary for most teachers is what,...
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I don't blame teachers or their unions but think that they are generally going to be in a weaker position with respect to compensation for some period. Maybe Dave above is irrational but his...
View ArticleThere really are bad teachers, and it really is more difficult to get rid of...
I've seen the the points made before - that pay should be higher, and that the unions aren't the problem. Generally, I agree. But let's admit that the profession attracts a certain number of people...
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What is the point of removing an incompetent teacher when they will be replaced by one even more incompetent thanks to the lack of economic incentives to draw talented people into the teaching pool? I...
View ArticleI'm not arguing that there are not bad administrators~
Don't attack the straw man - the point I'm making, which you do not dispute, is that there are bad teachers. Period. Implicitly, I'm also arguing that there are incompetent administrators who continue...
View ArticleTime to spend a little time in the classroom
I was one of those that was not smart enough to do anything but get an education degree. Then I was not smart enough to even get a teaching job. I therefore got an MBA from a top university and ran a...
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