The Dropout Nation Podcast: Time to Reveal Good and Bad Teachers
On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I challenge the view of the Los Angeles Unified School District, teachers’ unions, and school reformers who oppose revealing the names — and performance — of high-quality and laggard teachers. Presenting good-to-great teachers (and poor-performing counterparts) to the public will provide information that helps families, the teaching profession, and, most importantly, all of our children.
You can listen to the Podcast at RiShawn Biddle’s radio page or download directly to your iPod, Zune, MP3 player, smartphone, Nook Color or Kindle. Also, subscribe to the podcast series. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, the Education Podcast Network, Zune Marketplace and PodBean. Also download to your phone with BlackBerry podcast software and Google Reader.
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[...] reform movement. Still, just one out of every five families has such options available. Nor can parents find out whether the teachers in their children’s schools are worthy of their near-lifetime jobs and [...]
karl
541 days ago
Hi
Nice looking site. I hope to explore it more in the future. I taught for 20 years in various settings and left a few years ago. I would love to see reform in our system and it is a complex issue. Regarding letting parents know whether teachers are high or low performers seems good on its face, but I could imagine it skewing the results even further. If a “good” teacher gets the students whose parents cared enough to send them to their class while the teacher on the other end receives the least prepared. I can tell you that my own personal experience is that the system is largely dysfunctional and that there are a myriad of social factors that enter into whether a child achieves academic proficiency. Keep up he good work.