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February 18, 2021
By Jen Oliver, NIET Indiana Director
Editor’s note: This article was first published by The National Institute For Excellence in Teaching and is republished here with permission.
Muncie, IN While Muncie Community Schools could not have known at the time, the district launched one of the most important initiatives for supporting student success right as the pandemic was moving in: establishing and strengthening a teacher leadership pipeline. The district received a Career Ladders grant from the state in February 2020, right before COVID-19 forced schools to close. Hiring and training expert master teachers in every school, as well as training mentor teachers, immediately created a network of support that proved vital in supporting student learning over the next several months.
you heard the interview, what do you make of it? that s trump just being trump. he s always unhappy when there s a republican in the white house, period. donald trump has done a great deal to make workers happier and you see it in the statistics, you know, if you ask workers are you happy, more of them are happy now than they were two years ago. why? wages are up, tacks are down and employers are treating them a lot better offering better opportunities opportunities, better career ladders, he s like elizabeth warren, there s nothing a republican with do right, heck, donald trump did a lot for him in u.s.-méxico trade agreement and he says it wasn t enough. i would like to debate mr. trump about that but i doubt that he has to do that with me. rob: you re wide awake today, peter. he upsets me when he does this. you can t make him happy. you just can t do anything for that guy. you know, if he asked you for a dollar and you give him two, he
former education secretary under president obama. so what does he mean by that? let s find out. we re joined now by arne duncan, author of how schools work an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation s longest serving secretaries of education. great to see you. good morning. thanks for having me. you start your book with a bang and here are the lies we all tell ourselves. we value education. we value teachers. we value kids. how are those lies? we say we value education. that s the platitude, none of us vote on education. we don t hold politics accountable for raising graduation rates, increasing access to high quality pre-k. making college more accessible and more affordable. i don t blame the politicians. blame us voters across the spectrum. we say we value teachers. we don t pay them or train them as professionals and have meaningful career ladders. this is the toughest one, i don t think we value our
and high levels of long-term unemployment didn t show up on the dol numbers because the way you show up is by applying for unemployment insurance. louisiana went right to work in 76. they had a 33% union rate in construction then. by the time 29 years later after hurricane katrina, they were down to 3%. and a group of unemployed people decided to build power to bargain with the state for a path way back into that iconic american construction job that was a path and a career ladder to the middle class. so what they re strategy was, not to simply bargain with contractors, but to actually bargain with the housing authority. and what they ve won this year is a preconstruction mandatory collective bargaining agreement on a set of construction sites. they re now going to enter unions and they were all going to ride up career ladders and turn it into apprenticeship programs and good jobs. this is something that i