| "There is a massive outflow of teaching talent from our public schools, caused by the soul-deadening testing regime that has throttled creativity and independent thought among teachers and students like. The spirit of standardization is alive in the land, and teachers feel they are under assault if they do not conform and comply. Some just can ??t do it. I urge them to stay and fight, for the sake of the children, but for many teachers the conditions have become intolerable.At some point, we must attribute the deliberate attacks on the teaching profession to the so-called reform movement that holds teachers ??accountable ? for everything wrong in the lives of children. Researchers state without question, even conservative researchers like Eric Hanushek, that the influence of family far exceeds that of the teacher, yet reformers have turned teachers into their targets ..." |
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