Labor & Employment Law

Cooperation, Not Condemnation, Is Key to Improving Schools

By Mike Hall

Imposing a one-size-fits-all ?business model of performance on our schools? is as ill advised as it is ill suited for solving the problems we confront,? says School Administrators President (AFSA) Diann Woodard.

In a recent Huffington Post column, Woodard says management techniques that amount to telling us, “Get in line and march,? are not the answer to improving the nation?s schools and student performance.

Approaches like these aren’t turnaround plans; they simply turn a blind eye to the reality educators must confront, especially in communities where poverty and crime are more pervasive.

Rather than glib condemnations, what’s needed is a new spirit of cooperation, one in which all the stakeholders in public education?especially school administrators?are consulted on solutions rather than being targeted for vilification.

Read her entire column here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 26, 2010 (boomark / email).