Start with the teachers
Advice for the new President
1. Transcend the debate over NCLB and its standardized testing regime by — asking our nation’s best teachers to help design and implement a new accountability system that promotes 21 century learning and draws on the successes already occurring in their classrooms;
2. Transcend the debate over who should be recruited to teaching and how much preparation they should have by — discarding the idea that one teacher is solely responsible for 25 students. Instead, create policies that promote our best teachers serving as supervisors, evaluators, and coaches of a wide range of novices, adjuncts, and teaching assistants who collectively work with large group of students; and
3. Transcend the debate over traditional and alternative certification by — closing down poor preparation programs and rewarding a collective of university, school district, and community-based programs that attract more able recruits and prepares them for and supports them in high need schools.
Barnett Berry
President and CEO, Center for Teaching Quality
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