Over the weekend there were a few articles of note about the war on teachers and the profession itself. Over the last several years, we have seen more and more attacks leveled by the corporate "reformers" and their celebrity endorsers at teachers as being under worked and overpaid. Just ask Bill Gates and some researchers at the Heritage Foundation.
Anthony Cody and Eric Shieh penned two great pieces that highlight the need for teachers to get even more organized and to look deeply at what is happening around them. The many schemes that states and school districts are developing to use student test scores as part of educator evaluations and even in determining budget based lay-offs is alarming. A lot of these schemes are results of securing Race to the Top funding and/or applying for NCLB waivers.
You can also read this piece that highlights how teachers seem to be ignored in the reform debate.
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