At the height of the pandemic, while students everywhere grappled with remote learning, Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon noted that well-meaning outsiders were recognizing the deep inequities and barriers to education that a childhood in poverty imposes.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – At the height of the pandemic, while students everywhere grappled with remote learning, Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon noted that well-meaning outsiders were recognizing, for the first time, the deep inequities and barriers to education that a childhood in poverty imposes.
You know, I’ve been here 15 years, and in those 15 years I’ve come to believe that people fully underestimate my kids and their families and how much they go through to get the education that they get.
Q: Educators have been in the crosshairs of the culture wars, spurred by opponents of critical race theory and social emotional learning. How do you think this series can help influence the perception of educators and education?Well, unfortunately, we are a really devalued profession in this country. I know what are going to see in this series is that we have incredible people working really hard every single day, making moves in ways that people don’t even contemplate.
Also, our teachers are returning to school with incredible energy and enthusiasm in this very tough environment. There’s a national teacher shortage, and yet, thousands of our educators showed up super excited to welcome kids back into classrooms for another year. We hired about 300 teachers, and I was at our new teacher orientation and asked those who are new to the profession to stand up. Only a third were.
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