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Saturday, January 28, 2012

School Tech Connect: A Great Post By Anthony Cody

School Tech Connect: A Great Post By Anthony Cody:

A Great Post By Anthony Cody

The great Anthony Cody has published a deadly accurate column over at Edweek, and Valerie Strauss haspicked it up, too. It's really quite devastating but you should go read it. There's this:
I do not think teachers in many states quite understand how the profession is being transformed. And our unions are, in some cases, negotiating these agreements into place.
He's right. There's a good chance that if you're an educator, you probably belong to an association that started out as a union but now exists to promote the idea that the people in your profession (ie, you) aren't good enough at what they do.

American Public School Teacher
I've worked in one school that was eventually rubbed out because of AYP failure, and I've been paying attention to what's going on here in Chicago, so I feel like I have a bit of an idea about the great undoing of