The US has had the same arguments about teachers for 100 years

Posted on AllSides September 1st, 2014
From The Left

Should teachers be judged based on their students' test scores? Should they get tenure and job protections that other workers don't? Should education schools recruit the best and the brightest, or change how they teach future teachers entirely?

Those are some of the hottest questions in the education debate. And it turns out that none of them are anything new: Americans have been arguing about teachers and comparing our schools to other countries' for as long as the country has had schools.

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http://www.vox.com/2014/9/1/6089041/teacher-wars-dana-goldstein-where-teacher-tenure-comes-from

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