“Cal court rules teacher tenure creates impermissible unequal conditions” What about “teacher uneducation”?

California court rules teacher tenure creates impermissible unequal conditions – The Washington Post.

Also, several papers and magazines published opinion pieces.  I basically repeated this comment.  I want as many people as possible to understand how much of the problem is how the teachers are taught – or not taught. Here are links to those articles.

Will California’s Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Change Schools? – Dana Goldstein – The Atlantic.

California teacher tenure is struck down: Expect years of appeals – Los Angeles Times.

Michelle Rhee: California tenure ruling is a win for teachers and children – The Washington Post.

California Ruling on Teacher Tenure Is Not Whole Picture – NYTimes.com.

Should Everyone Have Tenure? – Forbes.

Teacher tenure: Brown v Board, the sequel | The Economist.

I commented.

“What we need to get rid of is “college-tenure”. I don’t mean that professors shouldn’t have tenure; I mean that colleges that graduate unqualified teachers, should be on a “no hire from” list.

All we have to do is give teacher competency tests that are anonymous for the individual (to avoid union resistance), but are made public by school.

New York City did something like this and what school came out poorly? Columbia, of course. Since I have been a professor for years, this was no surprise to me. Colleges aren’t much about education, anymore. They have discovered that “students” are uneducated “consumers” whose “wants” can be satisfied much easier than their “needs”. (Some of the things that go along with learning aren’t on everyone’s “want” list – not even mine, and I’m a professor. Of course, I can’t be fooled into only thinking I’m learning when I’m not; but many 18 year olds can be. Unscrupulous professors and institutions take advantage of that fact, too.)

The public needs to realize that the problem starts in college. That is where high school teachers get, or don’t get, the education THEY need to teach well.

I have a blog www.inside-higher-ed.com where I comment on both Columbia and how college dumbs down high school. After years of teaching and observing, I have decided to describe what happens and how. “