Standing Up For Teachers

In the national debate over education reform, supporters of reform have continually blamed teachers (and their unions) for everything that is wrong with education in this country.  Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg apologizes to teachers and points her finger at the real problems.

We refuse to allow public education to be privatized, perverted by profits, and reduced to endless hours of test preparation. We refuse to allow our schools to be judged, opened, closed, and funded on the basis of test scores. We refuse to allow the teaching profession to be scripted and threatened.

Teachers are part of the solution to what ails education, not part of the problem.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.