Teachers as Professionals

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My daughter began the yearly PSSAs today, and my son’s schedule was disrupted by the older kids taking them at Lincoln. This was on my mind as I read an interesting letter from a retiring teacher published in the Washington Post a few days ago. His overall point is that many troubling trends in public education– including standardized high stakes testing– share a common devaluing of teachers as professionals: “My profession…no longer exists”

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