John Lloyd
"Hey Times, Try Teaching for One Day" (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-lloyd22may22,0,4050662.story)
Los Angeles Times
May 22, 2007
Summary:
The article addresses many of the issues educators and administrators are dealing with today: pensions, teachers' unions, low wages, teacher evaluation, the factory model of education. It is more directly a defense of teachers' rights and an attack against the sort of top-down management that a previous Times article advocated.
Intended Audience:
Those who devalue educators and support the status quo.
Key Points: 1) The issues that face the profession of education are complex and multi-layered; 2) there are no easy solutions.
Relevance: We are entering the profession of teaching at a time of great uncertainty--technological, economic and social. Systems that have been in place in education for the greater part of the last 100 years are becoming inadequate, impractical, irrelevant, and some are entirely illogical in the face of the 21st Century. Change is coming. In order to avoid another Woods Hole Conference (a bunch of rich white guys, none of whom were public school teachers or administrators, sitting around deciding the fate of public education) we must be ready to get involved. Or, when our involvement is unwanted, to have the knowledge and courage to force the matter.
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