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Why Is school Reform mission Impossible?
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James L. Casale, Ph.D.
It would be easier to saddle up a python and ride off into the sunset than reform our government schools. The system is fatally broken and even Tom cruise couldn’t rescue it. Those who govern the system are-I am being kind- misinformed, the talent pool is too shallow and always has been, and the teachers’ unions continue to be major obstacles.
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Our Founding Fathers assigned or, should I say, left the responsibility of educating the public to the states. This precipitates three questions: who are our legislators? What do they know? and from whom do they get their information about education?
While the approval rating for state legislatures is light years ahead of congress at about 37% and a majority of legislators in many states have college degrees, are they really equipped to make the important decisions about a complex system they know little about? In fact, the Lilliard E. Richardson report (University of Missouri) reveals that the least formally educated legislatures have a higher public approval.
An article in the Chronicle of higher education quotes John Adams speaking about representative assemblies; they “should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large.” add governors, state boards, commissioners, (the Florida commissioner reportedly has one year of teaching on his resume), and school board members to this malaise of decision makers. This results in the proverbial, “inmates running the asylum.
I can only guess where they obtain their information before they make important decisions. Colleagues, staffers, donors, college professors- who haven’t been in a classroom for decades-committees, commissions, spouses, and pals come to mind. Do they even bother to seek and find the most knowledgeable teachers and administrators who are the true experts? Where is the talent, the research and the objectivity that should comprise state and local decision making?
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The talent Pool
The talent pool of outstanding teachers and principals- the line staff that can produce results-is shallow. There never were, are not now, and never will be enough talent to save the government schools. Our profession does not attract the best and the brightest. GRE scores for education majors are among the lowest. The brightest prospects are not necessarily the best since teaching is an art form that requires the artist’s instincts and a unique set of characteristics that include a sense of humor, compassion, tenacity, kindness, self-assessment and leadership. Not enough talented people are attracted to the teaching profession due to the salaries, the unimaginable difficulty of teaching a classroom of young people with varying abilities, the misguided legislators, and teachers’ unions who worship at the altar of the status quo.
Think back on your own K-12 experience and compile a list of the most outstanding teachers you experienced? You wanted to be in their class, wanted to do their homework, worked hard for them, and wanted their approval because they were always prepared, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, inspiring, respectful, compassionate, fair, and modeled what should be every school’s mantra, learning how to learn, becoming a life–long learner, and figuring out how to get along with everybody. TAMAM. kaç? My unscientific surveys always reveal a number less than ten.
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Teachers’ Unions
Should I stop here? They have been obstacles to school reform since forever. They oppose anyone and anything that interferes with their main mission; recruit members, negotiate for benefits and working conditions, protect tenure and worship at the altar of mediocrity. They oppose charter schools, vouchers, merit pay, California’s trigger law- which allows parents to close failing schools, innovative teacher evaluation reform, and anything that impinges on their power and turf.
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Their PAC organizations, lobbyists, and hefty donations control state and national democratic politicians and thus legislatures. Ask Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor who had the audacity to challenge union power. We witnessed democratic legislators running for cover to the next state in order to foil quorum requirements and demonsWisconsin dışında olanlar da dahil olmak üzere Union koyunların trasyonları ve mitingleri.
Demokrat olan New York Valisi Cuomo ve açıklanmamış bir Demokrat olan NYC’nin Belediye Başkanı Bloomberg, öğretmenlerin eyaletlerindeki sendikalarına meydan okudu. Cuomo zorunlu bir öğretmen değerlendirme bileşenini devlet bütçesine bağlamaya çalışıyordu ve Bloomberg başarısız okulları kapatmak ve 1500 kötü öğretmeni reddetmek istedi. Sendikanın en son düşmanı, Eğitim Sekreteri adayı ve charter okulları ve kuponlar için bir şampiyon olan Betsey Devoss’dur.
İyileştirme umudu var
Gerçek okul reformu mümkün olmasa da, okul gelişmesinin bir şansı vardır ve tüm engellere rağmen bireysel okullar ve okul bölgeleri için ara sıra gerçekleşir. En azından yerel düzeyde, seçkin yöneticileri ve öğretmenleri işe almak için vizyon, bilgi, azim ve bilgeliğe sahip okul kurullarının gerektirilmesi gerekir. Yaşam için görev süreleri- devlet yasa koyucularının ve okul kurullarının boyunlarının etrafında asılı olmayan bir albatrostur ve yetersiz öğretmenleri ve yöneticileri reddetmelerini engeller.
Çocuklarının ilk öğretmenleri ve rol modelleri olarak ciddi sorumluluklarını kabul eden ebeveynler, okulları geliştirme umudumuzdur. Daha bilgili ve proaktif olmalılar. Özel beceri gerekmez. Gerekli olan, çocuklarının eğitimine dahil olma taahhüdüdür. Bu taahhüt, eğitim hakkında olumlu bir tutum, ailelerini ömür boyu öğrenenler, bir aile misyonu beyanı ve aile hedefleri tarafından yönlendirilen bir plan haline getirmedeki rolleri gerektirir.
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Not: Dr. Casale, “Akıllıca ve Çözüm Olun: Evde Öğrenme Kültürü Oluşturma ve Okulda Başarı Yapma” nın yazarıdır.
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