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To: Jaknik2 who wrote (212289)	7/17/2007 2:22:59 AM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 794144

Generally concur, but believe the problem goes beyond "a fair amount of bad teachers". Teachers colleges have a deserved reputation. Over the past four or five generations the inmates have taken over the asylum -- and escaped adult supervision. Trendy theories predominate, irrespective of the rotten results they produce. Remember Marva Collins? She made a big splash in the early '70's. Quit a tenured job in Chicago and opened storefront schools in the Chicago ghetto, where parents or somebody had to come up with tuition. She achieved spectacular results. In the world run by teacher's unions, there was no incentive to emulate and further develop her methods. Jaime Escalante was finally run out of the LA school system, 'cause he wouldn't go along with the prevailing notions of inferior people in power. Sowell documents times and places where great teachers and methods overcame problems going even well beyond lack of parental involvement.