Via Feministe, I came across this.

Edutopia asked its readers: What five things would you do to save public education?

1. Raise teacher salaries.
2. Reduce class size.
3. Decrease standardized testing.
4. Increase parental involvement.
5. Educate the legislators about the schools.

Read the detailed answers here.

Those five points could make for an entire series of posts. The first two are a given…teacher salaries are scandalously low, especially when I look around at my local SDs to see that they’re asking candidates to hold a MASTER’S degree. Insane.

The standardized testing is what I just don’t get…and one of the worst legacies of the Bush administration to date. Even my (conservative, republican, evang christian) teacher mother agrees that NCLB is just a bad idea — even if well-intentioned.

When will “they” figure out that while what kids learn is important, teaching them how to learn is even more vital?