Iowa's Education Summit

Mike Wiser:

Iowa school reform legislation doesn't need consensus as much as it needs follow-through and buy-in from the top.

Teachers need to be evaluated by their peers and paid according to how well they perform in the classroom and on the test.

Principals need more training, and school districts need to be more selective in whom they hire for a building's top job. Tenure has to be earned, not once, but several times during an educator's career.

Those were just a few of the opinions aired at the Iowa Education Summit during the first day of the two-day Iowa Education Summit that brought teachers, principals, business leaders, college professors, politicians, nonprofit representatives and the nation's top educational authority, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, to Des Moines. The summit is expected to be the catalyst for a wide-reaching education reform package Gov. Terry Branstad will introduce next legislative session.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 26, 2011 2:19 AM
Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas