A group of California teachers had challenged a law that they said violates their First Amendment rights by requiring them to pay dues to the state’s teachers union. Teachers unions again made national news this week when the Supreme Court denied a petition from plaintiffs in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association to rehear the case. Collectively, we are failing to accurately measure teacher quality and, thus, failing to help teachers succeed. Here’s a post about how and why teachers have become scapegoats for problems in public education and what should be done to change the dynamic. The current discourse on teacher quality focuses disproportionately on teachers’ influence on students’ test scores.

Source: Washington Post June 30, 2016 16:40 UTC