Another good piece about Teacher tenure. It is self-evident to me that even Democrats know little about the issue of tenure and are frequently mouthing right wing talking points, without really understanding what they are saying. At the end of the this piece the concluding para says: As Dr. Alyssa Hadley Dunn of Michigan State University made clear in the Washington Post, the standard arguments against teacher tenure lack evidence and they are often thin on logic as well. If teachers having tenure protections were highly correlated to ineffective teachers being in the classroom, then our wealthy suburbs that have the most experienced teachers with the lowest rates of teacher attrition (and thus the highest proportion of teachers with tenure) would have ineffective classroom after ineffective classroom. Stripping all the teachers of a state of the due process rights they are afforded by tenure because it makes sense to people who have either not examined the research or who are falling for blatant distortions of the truth is not the best way to serve students.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:26:39 +0000
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