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rgb(12,151,210)">new research</a> finds that teachers in the United States earn less and work longer hours than those in other nations.</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>So, how do we recruit, retain and support great teachers? Certainly not by bashing them. There is no evidence that wiping out due process—more widely known as tenure—for K-12 teachers is going to make a more effective teaching corps. In fact, it will do the opposite. We know that the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/teacher-tenure-wrong-target-article-1.1983826" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(12,151,210)">states with the highest academic performance have the strongest due process protections for teachers.</a> Research shows that our most at-risk kids need more-experienced teachers. But why would these teachers stay at schools with few tools, little support and no ability to voice their concerns?</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>As Dana Goldstein, the highly acclaimed author of The Teacher Wars, wrote, “For high-poverty schools, hiring is at least as big of a challenge as firing, and the Vergara decision does nothing to make it easier for the most struggling schools to attract or retain the best teacher candidates.”</font></p><div class="" id="content-ad-3541200" style="overflow:hidden;height:0px"></div><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>Tenure is not a job for life. It’s ensuring fairness and due process before someone can be fired, plain and simple. Where it’s become more than that, our union has worked to change laws and contracts. Because no one, particularly not teachers, wants people in our profession who aren’t cut out for it or shouldn’t be there.</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>Due process means the teacher at a high-poverty, low-resourced school can fight for new schoolbooks or needed services for her kids. It’s a shield for the teacher who tells her boss that her special needs students deserve art and music. It’s a safeguard for the teacher who wants to get creative and use “Mean Girls” to explain the power dynamics in Julius Caesar. It’s what teachers—who aren’t paid enough or praised enough—need to do their jobs well.</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>Even Campbell Brown—who is leading the fight to eliminate due process in New York—when asked if she worried that “removing tenure might harm efforts to attract high-quality teachers,” said “Sure.”</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>We know why teachers stay, and we know why teachers leave. They stay when they’re well-prepared and supported; they leave when they’re not. They stay when they have manageable class sizes; they leave when their kids are packed in like sardines. They stay when they have effective managers; they leave when management is inconsistent or incompetent. They stay when poverty is counterbalanced by wraparound services; they leave when they don’t feel their students are being given a fair shot.</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>Here’s what Time’s cover story didn’t tell you: Two-thirds of what affects student achievement actually occurs outside the classroom. That’s why we need to talk about poverty, about segregation, about violence in our neighborhoods and in our schools.</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>We need to talk about the woeful lack of funding our schools receive. Sadly, at least <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/k-12-education-funding-mo_n_1000396.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(12,151,210)">30 states are funding education at a lower level than before the recession.</a> <a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/yellen20141017a.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(12,151,210)">Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen recently noted</a> that America has “one of the few advanced economies in which public education spending is often lower for students in lower-income households than for students in higher-income households.”</font></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin:1.5em 0px;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><font>Instead of hammering teachers, let’s smash inequality and underfunding. Let’s work together to do what evidence and common sense tells us works to help children succeed: Support and preparation for educators. Manageable class sizes. Time to collaborate. Rigorous standards with engaging curricula, including art and music. Early childhood education. Career and technical education. More project-based learning, less testing. Wraparound services to address kids’ social, emotional and health needs. Family and community engagement. Let’s work together to reclaim the promise of public education for all children.</font></p></h2><div style="min-height:251px;clear:right"><div style="direction:ltr"><div style="margin-top:0px;width:auto;border:0px none rgb(0,0,0);padding:0px;overflow:hidden"><div><div style="margin:0px 0px 3px;direction:ltr;padding:0px;overflow:auto;width:auto;border:0px solid rgb(169,169,169)"><div><div style="zoom:1;float:left;overflow:hidden;direction:ltr;margin:0px 0px 10px 2.640625px;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-width:1px;width:129.421875px;border-color:rgb(214,213,211);padding:0px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;background-color:transparent"><a title="UVA Student's Body is Found" href="http://time.com/?p=3522438&iid=tabvidrecirc" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank"><div style="width:129.421875px"><span style="margin:0px;border:0px solid rgb(169,169,169);float:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden!important;background-image:url(http://images.taboola.com/taboola/image/fetch/f_jpg%2Cq_80%2Ch_107%2Cw_130%2Cc_fill%2Cg_face%2Ce_sharpen/http%3A//timeInc.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net/rtmp_uds/293884104/201410/1386/293884104_3847786117001_video-still-for-video-3847743491001.jpg%3FpubId%3D293884104);background-color:transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat"><span style="background-color:transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat"></span></span><div style="width:129.421875px;padding-bottom:106.125px"></div></div></a><br><div style="width:129.421875px;min-height:143.125px"></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14px;color:rgb(51,102,204);text-decoration:underline;padding:0px 1px"></div></div><div style="zoom:1;float:left;overflow:hidden;direction:ltr;margin:0px 0px 10px 2.640625px;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-width:1px;width:129.421875px;border-color:rgb(214,213,211);padding:0px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;background-color:transparent"><a title="Besides Scotland, Where Else is Secession Possible?" href="http://time.com/?p=3395163&iid=tabvidrecirc" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank"><div style="width:129.421875px"><span style="margin:0px;border:0px solid rgb(169,169,169);float:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden!important;background-image:url(http://images.taboola.com/taboola/image/fetch/f_jpg%2Cq_80%2Ch_107%2Cw_130%2Cc_fill%2Cg_face%2Ce_sharpen/http%3A//timeInc.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net/rtmp_uds/293884104/201409/2800/293884104_3788113960001_scotland-uk-tout.jpg%3FpubId%3D293884104);background-color:transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat"><span style="background-color:transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat"></span></span><div style="width:129.421875px;padding-bottom:106.125px"></div></div></a><br><div style="width:129.421875px;min-height:159.125px"></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14px;color:rgb(51,102,204);text-decoration:underline;padding:0px 1px"></div></div></div></div></div><div style="clear:both;min-height:0px;overflow:hidden;line-height:0"></div></div></div></div><p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:georgia,serif;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;word-wrap:break-word;width:517.96875px"><em>This is one part of a series of readers’ responses to <a href="http://time.com/3533556/the-war-on-teacher-tenure/?xid=time_readnext" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(12,151,210)" target="_blank">this week’s cover</a>.</em></p><div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:franklin-gothic-urw,sans-serif;padding:0.55em 0px"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><br></span></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div><div style="padding:0.55em 0px"><br></div>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