Today’s moderator: Maureen Downey
Maureen Downey has written about local, state and federal education policy at the AJC for 12 years. She’s also taught college classes in mass communications and journalism. However, she’s learned more about schools from having four children in them.
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Labor Day seems an appropriate time to check in with the head of the nation’s largest labor union, the National Education Association. In Atlanta twice this summer, NEA president Dennis Van Roekel, a former math teacher, says the teaching profession can no longer just take whoever shows up; it must improve recruitment efforts. Also, a former consumer science teacher tells why schools should teach kids important life lessons about food. And readers sound off on President Barack Obama’s plan to hold colleges more accountable for student outcomes and tuition.
Guest columnists:
Teaching teachers by Maureen Downey
Betty Crocker: Not a role model for kids by Melanie Nelson
Response to recent conversation from our readers