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Why Don’t We Value Teachers? – GOOD Blog – GOOD

A new piece by Arne Duncan, the United States Education Secretary, starts out fairly predictably: He praises the fine, difficult work teachers do, repeats the sentiment that they “deserve” better pay, top-notch training and more respect, and so on. … Then the piece gets interesting. He proposes that part of the problem is that the whole system is stuck in the “factory model of the industrial age.

Nice.

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