The posted items on education are to supplement my recent book THE PURSUIT OF ECOTOPIA. I will, hopefully, add blogs on environmental education and related topics.
Currently, the Colorado legislature has seen fit to eliminate seniority (and other job security) for teachers, replacing it with purported measures of “effectiveness.” Bitter experience proves that when politicians take over such matters, the measure of effectiveness is invariably cooperation with the ruling political party. We can expect teachers in Colorado, henceforth, to toe the Democratic line when Democrats are in power, and the Republican one when Republicans are. What this will do to education, and thus to Colorado’s future, is easy to imagine.
