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Just Some Guy's avatar

More to the point, Roland Fryer's successful experiments in public education include getting rid of bad teachers and administrators, but have a number of positive additions as well.

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Just Some Guy's avatar

Finally somebody made the third panel of the equity cartoon I was unable to do myself. The only addition it needs is one more person, in a uniform, holding a chainsaw, sitting on top of three boxes.

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Andrew's avatar

In general, promoting teachers to administrators is a core part of the problem. Most administrators should be “support staff” - workers whose core role making someone else’s job easier.

You do need a couple of people at the top who have the insight to decide on direction and the skill to communicate & inspire, but for the most part you don’t get this by promoting administrators, whose very job description is to be compliant

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