[etni] Florida struggles to keep good teachers
- From: David Lloyd <dlloyd54@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:48:12 +0300
Florida struggles to keep good teachers
Tampa Bay Online - July 25, 2010
Education is key to the American dream, so we want our children to
have the best education. Although educators are doing a better job
than we did 100 years ago, progress is slow and the international
competition is keen, which is causing many people and politicians to
call for something decisive.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, a candidate for governor, has
proposed that it should be easier to fire teachers. Since contracts
already enable school boards to fire bad teachers, it is unclear what
this would accomplish.
Some studies suggest that the single most critical in-school factor
affecting student achievement is a teacher's effectiveness: How much
students learn depends a lot on how the class is taught.
This has inspired some politicians to propose that less successful
teachers - or to be precise, teachers whose students are less
successful - be dismissed. But considering that half of all teachers
leave their profession within the first five years, we don't seem to
have difficulty getting rid of teachers. In fact, with coaches
teaching English, English teachers teaching math and math teachers
scarce, perhaps teacher retention is the bigger problem.
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jul/24/co-florida-struggles-to-keep-good-teachers/
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