John Hood explained recently how teachers’ unions ? or “associations,” if you prefer ? stand in the way of real education reform.
Pat Wingert and Evan Thomas offer another piece of evidence supporting that argument in the latest Newsweek.
[T]eacher layoffs are coming?perhaps more than 100,000 nationwide. In most
states, union contracts or state law requires they be done by seniority,
so the newest teachers are pink-slipped, no matter how good they are. ?
?Last in, first out? virtually guarantees that all our great, young
teachers will be out of a job, and some of the least effective will stay
in the classroom,? says Tim Knowles, director of the Urban Education
Institute at the University of Chicago.
