My View on the Education Debate
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
October 22, 2008
Long Island University, C. W. Post
October 22, 2008
On Tuesday, October 21st, at 7 pm, Teachers College will host "Education and the Next President," a debate between Linda Darling-Hammond, education advisor to Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Lisa Graham Keegan, education advisor to Republican nominee John McCain.
I enjoyed the video we watched in class today. I have watched the presidential debates that recently were on television; however I found this debate to be much more interesting because it was solely based on educational issues. One issue that was addressed was the idea of merit pay.
This idea states that teachers should be rewarded for their students scoring well on standardized tests. I disagree with this concept. Teachers do not have much control over what children will be in their classrooms. It is not a fair practice to say that your job stability is dependent on how well your students do especially when you have children of different intelligence levels in your classroom and possibly some children may have had poor teachers in the past.
If the idea of merit pay existed, teachers would pay more attention to themselves than the well being of their students. Class lessons would be solely based on preparing for the test which would eliminate a lot of interesting lessons and activities.
I enjoyed the video we watched in class today. I have watched the presidential debates that recently were on television; however I found this debate to be much more interesting because it was solely based on educational issues. One issue that was addressed was the idea of merit pay.
This idea states that teachers should be rewarded for their students scoring well on standardized tests. I disagree with this concept. Teachers do not have much control over what children will be in their classrooms. It is not a fair practice to say that your job stability is dependent on how well your students do especially when you have children of different intelligence levels in your classroom and possibly some children may have had poor teachers in the past.
If the idea of merit pay existed, teachers would pay more attention to themselves than the well being of their students. Class lessons would be solely based on preparing for the test which would eliminate a lot of interesting lessons and activities.
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