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Duncan: Stop paying teachers like 'interchangeable widgets'
- 11-19-2010
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Blog by Nora Fleming/Education Week
In a discussion this week on school funding and budget cuts, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan emphasized that even in tough economic times, schools should push for "transformational change," moving away from the current factory-like education model where teachers are "interchangeable widgets" who are not compensated for performance. Duncan and Shawn McCollough, superintendent of the Nogales Unified School District in Arizona, were the featured panelists Wednesday in "Bang for the Buck in Schooling," sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit focused on public policy research. The two discussed the need for U.S. education leaders to make difficult school-budget choices at a time when per-pupil spending has stagnated, and in some parts of the country decreased, ending a 75-year upward trend, according to AEI. (more…)
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