Entry: What to look for

He will request a contract that pegs his pay to performance? Why are big city supes doing this? Gene White in Indianapolis is doing the same...so, if you are a teacher in XYZ elementary school, you are going to work harder to teach your ESL itinerant students math so the supe can make more money?

Posted by A. G. Rud at July 3, 2005 8:10 PM

Requiring a degree in science is nonsense. I have one, and I can't do Bennet's job. The best advice I have is that he sticks to what works.

Posted by Kobi Haron at July 4, 2005 3:52 AM

I thought the best line in there was: 'In the education wars, one person's fads are another's "best practices."' That works both ways. Persons who are so convinced of their position's virtues and the opposition's shortcomings aren't likely to see the virtues in the other side or their own shortcomings.

Posted by L Keiner at July 4, 2005 2:07 PM

I would suggest that it would be wise for him *not* to choose a "chief academic officer" but rather to get much more involved in the details of what is actually being taught and how. Appointing a CAO would tend to remove him from that critically-important stuff and focus him more on things like budgets and facilities.

Posted by David Foster at July 4, 2005 2:29 PM

thanks for posting this link.
i'll be linking to it myself
as soon as i get done here.

"If he says things like 'We must free children from the tyranny of computation so all children can master algebra and higher order thinking skills,' drive a wooden stake through his heart."

Posted by vlorbik at July 6, 2005 12:27 PM