This assignment provides you an opportunity to evaluate current problems with teacher performance in the U.S. education system and critique proposed solutions to close achievement gap among low income students.
Watch this 13 minute video segment from 60 Minutes on an innovative charter school in New York that is offering higher teacher salaries as a model for increased quality of education and student performance. Consider the following concepts when viewing the video:
Classroom management
Structure of the environment
Tenure for teachers (good or bad?)
Criteria for retaining 'good' teachers at this charter school.
Watch VideoCharter school's $125K experimentDuration (13:39)
After viewing the 13 Minutes video segment, NYC Charter School's $125,000 experiment, you are ready to write a journal entry. Using the four points I provided for you above, discuss how they are relevant in the video.
Discuss whether or not a program like this one could work if implemented nationwide?
Be sure to consider what works about this program and what does not work.