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 [Read more...]
