The fact is that all the approaches have something in common and that is teachers reform their teaching on the basis of the mentor or supervisors which prevent teachers from forming their own identity.
"We have wonderful examples of leadership, comprehensive teacher reforms, good teacher compensation, curriculum and technology.
But that support may depend on a factor central to many of these teacher reforms: experience.
Sure Start centres have closed, curriculum reform botched, primary places under pressure, teacher reform abandoned and, in Birmingham, the worrying consequence of an absence of local accountability.
The plan to eliminate uncertified teachers at SURR schools is supposed to be the first step toward eliminating uncertified teachers throughout the system under teacher reform guidelines passed by the Regents in 1998 and 1999.
In the field of education, one of the major points of teacher reform made by the Office of the National Education Committee (ONEC) in 2002 was to foster joy in learning by emphasizing sanuk in the classroom (Fry 2002).
The Ofsted chief inspector, in his annual report on education and skills in England, highlighted the difficulty struggling schools had recruiting staff, and said the government's teacher training reforms – pushing initial teacher training into schools – were allowing good schools to monopolise hiring.
Such reform would require an admission that the way the teacher training reforms were implemented was faulty.
"To Earn Classroom Certification, More Teaching and Less Testing" (front page, July 30) describes teacher education reforms that in focusing on field experiences have resulted in the decimation of the important fields that comprise the social foundations of education.
Among the issues raised were the cost of housing, transport, childcare, food and fuel; the low salaries paid to many professionals, including doctors and teachers; tax reform; and welfare payments.
However, there can be no doubt that the teacher accountability reforms championed by Rhee are under enormous pressure.
