This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
FED Capitol Hill Briefing
On October 22, in conjunction with its involvement in the Rethink Learning Now campaign, the Forum for Education & Democracy held the first of its three scheduled policy briefings – one for each of the campaign’s core pillars of successful education reform – powerful learning, high-quality teaching, and a system committed to fairness for all children.
Speaking to a capacity crowd in the Library of Congress, Forum Conveners Linda Darling-Hammond and Angela Valenzuela were joined by the Education Trust’s Kati Haycock and Renee Moore, the 2001 Mississippi Teacher of the Year. Together, the panelists outlined a comprehensive plan for investing in the long-term creation of a teaching profession – as opposed to the short-term acceptance of a teaching force.
Access to highly qualified and highly effective teachers should not be a zero sum game in which some students benefit from good teachers while others suffer without. Our students deserve better.
Also read the Forum for Education and Democracy's briefing paper.
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