There are a lot of flaws in education. But it’s tough to talk about many of them. Why? Because there are a lot of good teachers out there who take it personally. Then again, most of the good teachers I know don’t take it personally, and talk openly themselves about the flaws in education. Though they sometimes do it under their breath if they don’t yet have tenure.
This is one of the better articles I’ve seen recently on many of the flaws in public education. The incentives are all wrong. The incentives for the administrators are wrong. The incentives for the teachers are wrong. Most importantly, the incentives for the students are wrong.
I sometimes wonder what the most influential people in education would have to say about these flaws. That is, I wonder what the heads of the teachers unions think about the problems in education — not the problems they tell us about most often, but the problems outlined in the article above. What would Paul Hubbert say? And on whom would he lay the blame?
On another note, it’s interesting to me that one of the most influential men in Alabama has such a brief Wikipedia page. Somehow his role in the Charlie Graddick/Bill Baxley mess goes unmentioned.
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