What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education? | National Education Policy Center

http://nepc.colorado.edu/blog/what%E2%80%99s-really-wrong-teacher-quality-and-teacher-education

I think this is a great post by Paul Thomas about some of the many ways our efforts towards improving teacher quality are misdirected. It's not as simple as being anti-union and putting teachers on a scoreboard. According to Thomas, we need more focus on the *real* problems with teacher quality: we have an inequitable distribution of teacher quality and we need to invest more in training teachers to work with the least advantaged children.