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• Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the conditions of their labor, they're not supposed to care about pay. This is the kind of vision of the ideal teacher, which is again and again brought to the fore by reformers, the ideal teacher as someone who is passionately driven to serve children. Almost to the exclusion of a more pragmatic view of what the job actually entails.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Children, Vision

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• Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

  Dana Goldstein

  Achievement, Purpose, Today

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• There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Pensamiento, Médicos

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• I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

  Dana Goldstein

  Believe, Thinking, Figures

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• Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teaching, Intellectual, Moral

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• Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

  Dana Goldstein

  School, Justice, Youth

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• [Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

  Dana Goldstein

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

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• Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Enseñanza, Escuela

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• Muchas escuelas concertadas son escuelas no sindicadas que contratan a muchos profesores de itinerarios alternativos, como Teach For America. Lo hacen en parte porque muchas escuelas concertadas tienen ideologías muy fuertes sobre cómo quieren que enseñen los profesores. Y consideran que empezar con un profesor más joven o más inexperto les permite inculcar esas ideas con mayor eficacia.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Strong, School

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• What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to be the way to improve educational outcomes for poor children of color. And we see a consensus build on the left and in the center that this is going to be a transformative education movement like none other we've seen in American history.

  Dana Goldstein

  Niños, Educación, Escuela

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• The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is disappointment and cynicism and the search for what's next. And it's really in the search for what's next after that that we come upon ideas like increasing standardized testing for kids and using those tests scores to hold teachers accountable.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Disappointment, School

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• The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.

  Dana Goldstein

  Strong, School, Vision

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• I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. I have been critical of Teach For America in the past but I think one of the things about their model that's interesting is that they're constantly looking at it and whether what they're doing works and reassessing their model, and making changes. So to the extent that I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

  Dana Goldstein

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult to argue that pay doesn't have something to do with the lack of prestige.

  Dana Goldstein

  Moving, Arguing, Prestige

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• There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.

  Dana Goldstein

  Country, Running, Teacher

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• There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors. And yet there's this political conversation - this reform conversation - that paints a very negative picture of the effectiveness of the teaching population. So there's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Enseñanza, Pensamiento

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• The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Protection, Easy

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• Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

  Dana Goldstein

  Quality, Lessons, Planning

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• The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Escuela, Años

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• There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Enseñanza, Pensamiento

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• When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Enseñanza, Pensamiento

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• Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.

  Dana Goldstein

  Jobs, Men, Salary

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• Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Escuela, Personas

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• We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.

  Dana Goldstein

  Intellectual, Today, Common

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• I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

  Dana Goldstein

  Profesor, Pensamiento, Gente

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