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House Education Committee Hearing on Effective Teachers for AllOct. 5, 2009—The House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing on Sept. 30 to examine how all children could have access to effective teachers. In addition to the quality teacher requirements of No Child Left Behind, the Race to the Top grant applications and emergency state fiscal stabilization funds require equal access to effective teaching and plans for states to address any inequities. “There’s no question that a great teacher is the key ingredient in a child’s education. It is no longer acceptable to allow our poorest children, who need effective teachers the most, to suffer in a system that is not helping them to achieve,” said U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chair of the House Education and Labor Committee. “A young person entering the teaching workplace today wants it to look like their friends’ workplace, but don’t receive the same level of structure, support, or professional development opportunities offered in other industries. This is about being on the right side of history, about changing the teaching workplace to help every student and every teacher excel.” Witnesses included Dennis Van Roekel, the president of the National Education Association, who testified that his union would take steps to help address barriers in collective bargaining agreement that can make it hard to get the best teachers in high-need schools, as well as Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy of the American Enterprise Institute, and Linda Murray, Ph.D., Acting Executive Director of Education Trust-West. See the complete list of witnesses and read or view their testimony. | |||||
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