Blog Assignment #14

From the article "Teaching Our Children Can Be A Profession", by Joel Klein expresses the problems that are in the education system. Some of the problems that are listed in the article are:

• Pick From The Best 

                Employers need to recruit from the top third of the graduates.
                There needs to be better academic training for teachers.
                The reward system for teachers need to change.

• Seniority Distraction

                 For teachers to stay employed depends on how long they have been somewhere more than                      their skill.
                 Excellence should be a guiding tool for teachers to become better.
                 Teachers should go through a series of test after so many years to become re-certified.

• Radical Change 

           

   I completely understand where Joel Klein is coming from with wanting to make these changes in the school system. A lot of people think that just anyone can be a teacher, but it shouldn't be like that at all. Teachers are teaching the kids of the future and how we teach now will determine what the will go on to know and become. Also, teachers are not held to the highest of standards at all. Just beside someone has been somewhere longer does not make them the better employee. I enjoyed reading this article by Joel Klein and agree with what he has said greatly.