Education Secretary Has No Professional Classroom Teaching Experience . CNS News.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the man responsible for assisting the executive and legislative branches in implementing education policy goals, tutored kids as a young student but has never professionally taught inside a classroom.
Duncan’s experience in education includes time as the administrator of a nonprofit school and as head of the Chicago public school system, according to Education Department press secretary Justin Hamilton.
One who has never known the work in the foxhole would be significantly handicapped in managing the battle from the war room. A Harvard magna cum laude graduate with many titles and awards, does not automatically a teacher make, nor a manager who knows how to impart education on a large scale.
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Yeah, he did a real bang up job on the schools in Chicago.
Honestly, and they wonder why our schools are so screwed up and our kids are not learning. I think he’s the guy who gave Obama the idea for all year school calendar. Sounds good on paper….but in reality, it will end up costing States more money than they can believe. They can’t expect the kids to be in school when it’s over 90 degrees and the school is not air conditioned (like most of the schools in the Chicago area), they have to pay the teachers more (like that’s gonna happen!), and they will also have to subsidize the cost of lunches for another 3 months or so.
It would make more sense to actually teach the kids while they are in school with quality teachers, a better curriculum, and books that aren’t filled with pictures and no information. Have you ever read their history books lately? Total revisionist history. They don’t even teach spelling in many of the schools, and don’t even get me started on the lack of Geography and English Composition.
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Nunly, you have some excellent judgment. Administrators who love theory but are completely incapable of applying it in the real world. They also are unable to think pragmatically and work within the confines of the resources available. They do not understand a simple budget, and have a field day spending other people’s hard earned wages they pay in taxes, typically for their dreamy, unproven ideas. It is simply a game to them, for which there is no penalty for making a mistake, either with children’s education, teacher’s jobs, advancement, and morale, and people’s taxpayer dollars. These educational bureacrats thrive on touting new age educational methods and books, especially when there is something to gain, particularly financially, e.g. books they write translate into personal profit.
Whatever happended to fundamentals????
Nursery Admissions, the best button on this site IS the panic button. Use it as needed.