After reading chapter 11 from Reign of Error I learned that poverty has big connection with children education, so people should consider fixing poverty in order to fix the educational system. Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, Joel Klein and Wendy Kopp all believe that effective teachers can overcome poverty. I don’t understand how they believe that teachers can overcome poverty. If a student is hungry from not being able to eat and therefore, he is not able to learn, how’s a teacher going to overcome that, she might not even know the reason he is not learning. In the United States childhood poverty is higher than other advance nations and this affects education. It doesn’t matter if the teacher is an “effective” teacher or bad teacher; the cause of
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This chapter is talking about Race to the Top and how this law blamed both the schools and the teachers if students tests scores did not increase. Reformers know that all students can learn and it is the teacher’s job to make them learn enough get good test scores. If students don’t get high test scores than it is the teachers fault because she didn’t do her job or she had low expectations of her students and the teacher must be fired. Reformers states that a highly effective teacher can cause all her students test scores to go up every year. Thus, the Obama administration believed they can fix our schools educational system by firing all the teachers they considered a “bad” teacher. The Obama administration is stating that the reasons students don’t get high test scores is the teachers fault. They are not even going to consider other options for why the student isn’t doing too well in school, like the student going through family issues, being hungry, having little sleep… no they are blaming everything on the teacher and that is very unfair. The plan to fire all the “bad” teachers never happened because they cannot prove if the teacher is a bad teacher or a good teacher, teachers also have a union that helps them not get
This chapter is talking about Race to the Top and how this law blamed both the schools and the teachers if students tests scores did not increase. Reformers know that all students can learn and it is the teacher’s job to make them learn enough get good test scores. If students don’t get high test scores than it is the teachers fault because she didn’t do her job or she had low expectations of her students and the teacher must be fired. Reformers states that a highly effective teacher can cause all her students test scores to go up every year. Thus, the Obama administration believed they can fix our schools educational system by firing all the teachers they considered a “bad” teacher. The Obama administration is stating that the reasons students don’t get high test scores is the teachers fault. They are not even going to consider other options for why the student isn’t doing too well in school, like the student going through family issues, being hungry, having little sleep… no they are blaming everything on the teacher and that is very unfair. The plan to fire all the “bad” teachers never happened because they cannot prove if the teacher is a bad teacher or a good teacher, teachers also have a union that helps them not get