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...walk into a third-floor classroom of Boylston Hall and take a seat. It’s the first day of section, and after we all shuffle around and take out our books, our Dutch TF gets a little perky and asks us for introductions: “Name, year, and a fun fact! Be creative...
Rather than contending the dichotomy between seniority and teacher effectiveness, however, Klein and others should advocate a different approach to education policy that is based on keeping as many teachers as possible in the classroom. Public school teachers are essential to improving American education, meeting the needs of all students, and providing a crucial long-term investment in the continuing competitiveness, creativity, and competence of the country as a whole...
...approach amounts to Extreme Makeover: School Edition. Fire the teachers and principals, turn schools into charters, lengthen the day and year, or shut the schools down completely and send the kids elsewhere. These so-called turnaround strategies - which aim to increase test scores, decrease dropout rates and improve classroom culture in short order - are perhaps the most ambitious part of President Obama's education-reform agenda. But it's a high-risk intervention. "This is like telling doctors to pick patients with the most advanced forms of cancer and make them better," says Jack Jennings, president of the nonpartisan Center...
...Corporate Classroom Like many of the buzziest concepts in education today, turnaround is a term cribbed from the corporate world. Many a failing company has been transformed by new leadership or some sort of reorganization. An education consultancy published a report last year that pointed to Continental Airlines and the New York City Police Department as entities that in the mid-1990s were able to effect "rapid U-turns from the brink of doom to stellar success." (Hence Domino's Pizza's new ad campaign, the Pizza Turnaround, which highlights its efforts to make its core product taste less like...
...This event is General Education personified,” said General Education administrative director Stephanie H. Kenen, as she observed the project displays. “We want Gen Ed to be a place where students can extend their intellectual lives outside of the classroom...