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Dana Goldstein

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

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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.

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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.

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A lot of charter schools are non-union schools that take a lot of teachers from alternative tracks, like Teach For America. They do this in part because a lot of charter schools have very strong ideologies around how they want teachers to teach. And they find that starting with a younger or more inexperienced teacher allows them to more effectively inculcate those ideas.

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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.

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

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