Newswise — John Sipple is a professor of Development Sociology whose research focuses on the responses of public school districts to changes in state and federal policy – with a focus on community and organizational change and how it relates to learning opportunities for students across racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines. Sipple also is director of the New York State Center for Rural Schools.
Sipple says:
“This situation in Chicago is a real test case.
“A test for how angry the public will get when the union tries to maintain job security in the face of massive reductions in force in other sectors.
“But also a real test for the idea that teachers should agree to put their job on the line based, at least in part, on tests that aren't fully up to the task of differentiating individual teacher quality. Aggregate school or district quality, perhaps, but individual-level difference? I doubt it.”
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