Columnist Links Large Number of Poor Teachers to Failing Schools
In a continuing series of columns on education, the Knoxville News Sentinel this weekend had a column from Pete Stevens about individual teachers and their effect on the education system as a whole.
Stevens placed teachers in one of three categories, wonderful, adequate but in need of mentoring, and terrible. He polled upper-level college students and found that through their experiences, up to 50 percent of teachers fall into that last category.
Former superintendent Charles Lindsey's recommendation was to ensure that students did not have two bad teachers in a row. Stevens' recommendation was to, "kill government schools."
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