[etni] Fwd: Florida struggles to keep good teachers
- From: David Lloyd <dlloyd54@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:52:46 +0300
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From: Barry Silverberg <barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [etni] Florida struggles to keep good teachers
Dear David,
Hasn't the Dept of Moe already done a lot to lose the best teachers
and anally retain the weaker?
The Ofock Haddash program pays a low salary for lots of hours of work,
culminating in a livable salary on a slave's life.
This is actually a rebirth of the old textile factories and government
subsidized industries: labour intensive, quality abysmal.
Anyone who can leave for a better wage will.
(signed)
A. B. Smal
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Did you know? The Amharic word for 'worthless' is 'waga-bees.'
PPS: It might be more successful if it read, "FLORIDA SNUGGLES TO
KEEP TEACHERS.'
> 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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