A different kind of reform: education
Source: seattletimes.nw Posted By: Faye C...5267 days ago
The Seattle Times could not be more wrong in its advocacy for teacher pay pegged to student performance [“State should join race to reform education,” Opinion, editorial, Nov. 15].
The uncomfortable truth about our supposedly failing schools isn’t that educators are somehow not motivated, trained, guided, mandated, paid or worked enough. It’s that students, parents and our society at large — including the media — see education as somehow wholly separate and distinct, a purview only of teachers,....