Good freaking grief. The NEA - the one entity that by itself is more responsible for decreasing quality of education than perhaps any other - now wants to train teachers to teach. From the Grand Rapids Press via MLive:
Should the union play a role in teacher training? NEA president thinks so. The NEA doesn't care about teaching, it only cares about union dues from teachers.
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel called for the union creating a Commission on Effective Teaching that he said would address “questions that have been avoided for far too long,” reports Education Week’s Stephen Sawchuk.
The union’s national convention is in New Orleans this weekend, and Grand Rapids Education Association President Paul Helder is tweeting that dramatic things are in the works, such as a potential no confidence vote in national Race to the Top plans.
Sawchuk reports that Van Roekel called for the commission at near the end of his keynote address, which also included some criticism of President Obama.
“What would the profession look like if we, the union, actually controlled teacher training, induction and licensure, evaluation, and professional development?” Sawchuk quotes Van Roekel.
Kind of like this if I don't miss my guess:
Apparently, the union wants to preempt a national debate as to how best to evaluate teachers, one they see as inevitable. But the NEA is a labor union that fights for wages and benefits. It uses education as an excuse for outlandish demands at the bargaining table, but when you get down to it, the union itself has no educational understanding nor is it meant to. The NEA getting involved in teachers qualification will put them in denial of the lack of educational quality just like they are now in denial of fiscal limits on their demands. This is like BP wanting to police itself.
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