Bill Maher: New Rule: Let's Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don't Learn — Let's Fire the Parents
3.13.10 – Last week, President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in a poor Rhode Island neighborhood. But according to all the studies, it doesn't matter what teachers do. What matters is what parents do.
Bill Maher: New Rule: Let’s Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don’t Learn — Let’s Fire the Parents
Last week, President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in a poor Rhode Island neighborhood. But according to all the studies, it doesn’t matter what teachers do. What matters is what parents do. The number one predictor of a child’s academic success is parental involvement. It doesn’t even matter if your kid goes to private or public school. So save the twenty grand a year and treat yourself to a nice vacation away from the little brats.
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Let's step out of the classroom trenches for a moment and put it into office terms.
If the printer doesn't perform 50% of the time (even when equipped with toner), fire the employees… it's not the manufactures problem.
Sounds a little illogical
Brandon, you're missing the point. To continue your analogy, if the printer doesn't work 50% of the time, you get rid of it and bring in a new printer. Firing incompetent/poor teachers allows a district to bring in <good> teachers. In office terms, where there are no such things as unions to protect lazy and ineffective employees, bad employees get fired. Period.
Good luck identifying the so called "good" or "bad" teachers! All teachers have their strengths and weaknesses.
With great curriculum and good guidance from peers, academic coaches, and administrators, any teacher can go from average to good and/or good to great!
I would much rather have our nation use the NAEP (which is proctored by outside evaluators) give our country a sense of where our students are performing. The NAEP or a national standards test (proctored by outside evaluators) should address and assess the skills and concepts that are directly instructed in the classroom. By having the same set of standards and the same test (at the beginning of the year and the end of the year), the teacher would know that the playing and testing fields are level. He or she will also know what is to be taught to mastery. A common set of standards and a common assessment would allow the best teachers to also share their expertise and their best lessons in their field of talent. Teachers need to be less shy about sharing their talents with other educators. Most teachers enjoy learning every day just as their students should. A love of education can become wide-spread throughout the country.
Does not solve the teaching to the test problem. In the wide world of work and experience, knowledge is not packaged multiple choice. Knowledge is applied, dots are connected, and so forth. Some of the Asian countries have discovered that high test scores do not assure success in the world of work and innovation, where all this should be leading. This stuff is fuzzier and much harder to test.