“ Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory of their lives. Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay — sometimes digging into their own pocket for school supplies, just to make a difference. Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal: give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job and keep the best ones. And in return, grant schools flexibility to teach with creativity and passion, and stop teaching to the test — and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn. That’s a bargain worth making.
OBAMA (via l1feisbeaut1ful)
Amazing, so so amazing. As someone who is planning to go into education, I can’t agree enough. Republicans are working so hard to tell us that education doesn’t matter. At least it doesn’t matter enough for the government to support. But I literally cannot think of anything more important. It’s a cliche, but children really are our future. It is our job to make sure that those kids can go out into the world as educated individuals, ready to make the differences that their parents could not.
The republicans often argue that throwing money at the problem will not help. There is some truth to that. But only because all too often the money is either not enough or misused by corrupted public officials (such as in the case of Mayor Street here in Philly). How can we make sure kids are probably prepared for college, let alone the world at large, when too many schools are teaching from textbooks that are over a decade out of date, when they don’t even have enough pencils for their students and if they are lucky there is one computer in the library, and it was made in 1995. How can we teach kids how to solve real world problems when in order for us to keep our jobs, it is more important to teach them that on most standardized tests, an unanswered question is worth more than an incorrect question and therefore if they really don’t know the answer they should leave it blank? Or teaching them how to properly skim the reading portion so that they can save time when answering the questions?
(via name-em-shame-em)
Just have to hope that these aren’t just words and that these ideas become reality.
(Source: inothernews)
