[YEP-DC] New Recess blog post: "The Limits of Parent Voice"

Saw the Slate article that lamented, "If you send your kids to private school, you're a bad person"? Then don't miss this tough critique from Recess blogger CJ Libassi:

"The assumption which underlies this -- and a lot of thinking about education reform initiatives -- is that the current system could function perfectly well if the people in it were just pushed to do certain things. This is a mistake people sometimes make when they think about merit pay; people believe that merit pay is meant to motivate teachers to teach better. But as Matt Yglesias has pointed out, merit pay is really about attracting and retaining the best teachers. The mistaken idea is that some huge amount of capacity is going squandered because the wrong set of incentives animate the system. But what if the problem is more fundamental than that?"

 

Read the full post, "The Limits of Parent Voice," here: http://www.youngedprofessionals.org/1/post/2013/09/the-limits-of-parent-voice.html

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