I’m a big fan of Anna Quindlen. I just came across this column, from last fall, and thought it was worth a link here:
Unfortunately, the current fashionable fixes for education take a page directly from the business playbook, and it’s a terrible fit. Instead of simply acknowledging that starting salaries are woefully low and committing to increasing them and finding the money for reasonable recurring raises, pols have wasted decades obsessing about something called merit pay. It’s a concept that works fine if you’re making widgets, but kids aren’t widgets, and good teaching isn’t an assembly line.
She mentions Frank McCourt’s book, “Teacher Man”. I haven’t read it, but it sounds like it’s worth a look.
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