Comments on: Handmaid Ladling Norm? http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/20/handmaid-ladling-norm/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:13:38 -0600 hourly 1 By: Rachel http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/20/handmaid-ladling-norm/comment-page-1/#comment-4894 Rachel Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:10:38 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1486#comment-4894 I find the status quo vs. reform dichotomy not only a false one, but a self-serving one for the self-proclaimed "reform" camp. Many of the same reformers promote teacher quality as a key to school improvement, but almost all their plan to promote teacher quality seem to focus on applying simplistic Econ 101 assumptions to teacher motivation and saying "Q.E.D. unions must be bad." If Obama believes that teacher quality is a key issue, having someone who actually studies it as an advisor would seem to me to be the right approach. I find the status quo vs. reform dichotomy not only a false one, but a self-serving one for the self-proclaimed “reform” camp.

Many of the same reformers promote teacher quality as a key to school improvement, but almost all their plan to promote teacher quality seem to focus on applying simplistic Econ 101 assumptions to teacher motivation and saying “Q.E.D. unions must be bad.”

If Obama believes that teacher quality is a key issue, having someone who actually studies it as an advisor would seem to me to be the right approach.

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