...good teachers are rare and it’s good for everyone if they stay in education instead of being lured to Google or Goldman Sachs.
Is this a common Goldman pipeline? Do they have recruiters hanging around teachers' lounges? The teachers I know who have gotten fed up with all of it have become insurance agents, agricultural extension people, etc. b^)
> After your stint at Teach for America, a two-year post-undergraduate teaching program, you decided to leave the academic world behind and work in New York City. Where are you most likely to be employed? Goldman Sachs.
Offered without comment, I'm not sure what this link to an opinion column is supposed to mean. The quote is a hypothetical example. It seems that T4A is more of a temporary diversion program than a recruitment program anyway. Harvard students, who in a just universe would all become wealthy investment bankers, are encouraged to teach in urban schools for a couple of years. This despite the fact that their Economics and Philosophy concentration probably included very little on pedagogy. This despite the nearly universal (although not necessarily justified) opinion among teachers and administrators that first-year teachers are pretty much useless. This despite the writer's apparent suggestion that the point of the whole thing should be an easier "in" to Goldman.
> This despite the fact that their Economics and Philosophy concentration probably included very little on pedagogy.
This is irrelevant since the effects of a degree in education on measures of student learning is not reliably distinguishable from zero. Training in pedagogy either doesn’t matter at all or matters very, very little.
> This despite the nearly universal (although not necessarily justified) opinion among teachers and administrators that first-year teachers are pretty much useless.
That’s a bit harsh but the only reliable correlate of teacher quality I’m aware of is years of experience up to six years. First years probably aren’t “pretty much useless” but you’d prefer more seasoned instructors.
Is this a common Goldman pipeline? Do they have recruiters hanging around teachers' lounges? The teachers I know who have gotten fed up with all of it have become insurance agents, agricultural extension people, etc. b^)