Jim Devine writes: >> fitting the theme of Harry Braverman's LABOR AND MONOPOLY CAPITAL, the >> goal of the whole movement is to convert public-school teachers from >> artisans or professionals to assembly-line workers or servants.
I think you are are referring to the school reform movement (as seeking to convert teachers from artisans/professionals to assembly-line workers), but to be fair, isn't it more accurate to say that the public school unions see the teachers as interchangeable assembly-line workers? I mean, isn't that the heart of the issue behind the current ACLU led lawsuit against California, which directly attacked the union defended policy of seniority protection during layoffs? Is there any other basis to defend seniority protection other than teachers are interchangeable assembly line workers? David Shemano >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:54 PM, michael perelman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Business Week seems a lot better since Bloomberg took it over. The >> > magazine has done an especially good job in covering privatized >> > education. Here is an excellent example. >> > >> > Golden, Daniel. 2010. "Teachers' Pest." Bloomberg Businessweek (19-25 >> > July): pp. 58-63 >> > .http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_30/b4188058281758.htm >> > >> > 58: "Starting in 2000, the Gates Foundation spent hundreds of >> > millions of dollars on its first big project, trying to revitalize >> > U.S. high schools by making them smaller, only to discover that >> > student body size has little effect on achievement." >> > >> > 58: "It has since shifted its considerable weight behind an emerging >> > consensus -- shared by U.S. Education Secretary and Gates ally Arne >> > Duncan -- that quality of teaching affects student performance and >> > that increasing achievement is as simple as removing bad teachers, >> > identifying good ones, and rewarding them with more money. On this >> > theory, Gates is investing $290 million over seven years in the Tampa, >> > Memphis, and Pittsburgh school districts as well as a charter school >> > consortium in Los Angeles. The largest chunk of money, $100 million, >> > will go to Tampa's Hillsborough County school district, the >> > eighth-largest in the U.S., with 192,000 students and 15,000 teachers. >> > These carefully selected programs, which will favor or penalize >> > teachers depending on whether students make larger or smaller gains >> > than their test scores in prior years would have predicted, are >> > intended as models that, if proven successful, can be rolled out >> > nationwide." >> > >> > More at: >> > >> > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/bill-gates-teachers-pest/ >> > >> > -- >> > Michael Perelman >> > Economics Department >> > California State University >> > Chico, CA >> > 95929 >> > >> > 530 898 5321 >> > fax 530 898 5901 >> > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pen-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own >> way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >>
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