I think when you are focused on attacking the bottom, bad teachers, even good teachers get offended and feel that it dishonors and denigrates the excellent work that they do on a day-to-day basis, so I think it's a really important strategy to be positive and think about the excellent work that is happening and try to amplify that, and make a profession that is attractive to college kids.
As in, "Preparation + Focus = Success," the motto posted on the wall in the cafeteria, in the hallway, at the front of every classroom and at the bottom of teachers' letters to parents.
Bottom line: Teachers should never, ever have sex with their students.
The last items on students' "should-cut" lists, starting from the bottom, are teachers, administrators, "other," guidance counselors and sports -- all items that schools have shown to most commonly choose to cut first.
Get a bottom 1 percent teacher, and the effect is the same as if a child misses 40 percent of the school year.
It is among the leaders in the percentage of people without health care and the rate of violent crime, and near the bottom in teacher salaries.
The state ranks nationally at or near the bottom in teacher salaries and per capita income, and it ranks near the top in the number of children who lack health insurance.
He hopes that hot midday meals will be an incentive, if he can find the money to pay for them.So, at the top, billions of euros are being pumped in; while, at the bottom, a teacher struggles to find the tiny amount needed simply to feed his charges.
So it came as an enormous surprise when I saw a proliferation of newspaper reports and blogs describing midriff-baring, sweatpants- and pajama-bottom-wearing teachers.
Alternatively, replacing the bottom 5-8 percent of teachers with average teachers could move the U.S. near the top of international math and science rankings with a present value of $100 trillion.Adam Ozimek offers commentary here.
