AFT President Proposes New Path Forward in Education
AFT President Randi Weingarten today proposed a “new path forward” in building quality schools in our changing world.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this morning, Weingarten said if America is going to thrive in the 21st century, our entire approach to education must change. She proposed specific changes in the way teachers are evaluated, disciplined and how they are allowed to do their jobs:
- Creating a fair, transparent and expedient process to evaluate teachers. States should adopt standards for what teachers should know and be able to do; teachers should be assessed through multiple measures, including student test scores that gauge individual academic progress; administrators should be held accountable for putting the standards into motion; and teachers should receive help through mentoring and professional development.
Wall Street Won’t Do Right. Now They Have To
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So, Wall Street CEOs didn’t figure out on their own that when they take taxpayer money, they have a moral obligation to help the overall economy with their $700 billion public-funded bailout rather than single-mindedly line their own pockets with billions of dollars in salaries, bonuses and other ego-inflating perks.
Funny how “moral obligation” and “Wall Street” tend to be mutually exclusive terms.
Wall Street CEOs wouldn’t do it on their own. So now they have to.
