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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (232001)12/19/2007 7:36:09 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk  Read Replies (2) of 793790
 
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In the early 70's Marva Collins made one helluva splash. She quit a tenured job with the Chicago school district and opened private educational stores in the Chicago ghetto. Her results were spectacular.

Jaime Escalante was incredibly successful teaching higher math in the LA barrios. He was ran out of Dodge.

The incentives in union run schools work against emulation and further development of proven practices. Instead, there is an increasing trend toward credentialism. And those credentials are developed by generations of folks who come out of teacher's colleges.

Snipped from reason.com

In the real world, those who provide a service can usually find a way to get it to those who want it, even if their current employer disapproves. If someone feels that he can build a better mousetrap than his employer wants to make, he can find a way to make it, market it, and perhaps put his former boss out of business. Public school teachers lack that option.

There are very few ways to compete for education dollars without being part of the government school system. If that system is inflexible, sooner or later even excellent programs will run into obstacles.

And there ain't nuthin' to be done about it. Most of the electorate have been indoctrinated by the wrong sort of people.
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