Look into your crystal ball. It's right there in your newspaper. You can see some things about what our schools will be like in ten years. Better yet, save this blog entry and see how close my crystal ball is when compared with New Yrok State in the coming years.
The idea of sharing ideas with fellow teachers will have faded into the old way of doing things. A willingness to take on the harder kids in a school... gone. Teachers will be jockeying for the classes that ensure their survival, and a bit like a Hobbesian state of nature, it will be teacher against teacher.
Why? Because 40 percent of our evaluation for APPR will be based on various standardized tests. These scores will be used to pit each teacher against another, district vs. district, etc. All of this is in line with Obama's terrible metaphor driving eduation philosophy. If you think No Child Left Behind had terrible effects on schools, wait for the long term implications of Race to the Top. Did you ever wonder how many people can get to the top first? Just one. Everyone else loses.
This Darwinian approach to what has been a borderline noble professoin through the years will make collegial sharing and cooperation will be dead. More on this later...
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