Source Form #2

Title: Letting Good Teachers Fix Bad Schools; Chattanooga’s Incentives, Shuffling Of Educators, Boost Urban Campuses

http://www.clipfile.org/clips/000863.php

Summary:  Dallas Morning News reports on Chattanooga, Tennessee schools, referred to as the Benwood Schools, that implemented a program for better retention of teachers in their poorest schools that ended up saving their city and how that is parallel to a lot of what is seen in Texas and how it can be applied there.

 

Topic: http://msaraceno.wordpress.com/question/

 

Category:  Journalistic Source.

 

Publication Information: These are archived articles of a staff writer/columnist for the Dallas Morning News.  Published this article on August 29, 2003.

 

Author: Joshua Benton

 

Location: http://www.clipfile.org/clips/000863.php

 

Accessed:  January 29, 2009

 

Support:  Bob Corker, elected mayor of Chattanooga in 2001.  Rebecca Everett, principal at Hillcrest Elementary School in Chattanooga.  Jesse Register, Superintendent of Hamilton Schools. Kristy Bramlett, a teacher who moved to Hamilton Schools to take advantage of the incentives.  These sources are working together to provide a full circle story of how the school used to be and the benefits that have become the fruits of the labor after this new system was provided to teachers who would come work at the Benwood schools.  Bramlett is a testimonial type dealing with being lured into this school system and why.  The Hamilton school district was a priority in the eyes of Corker and he gives his information of how he handled bringing it back to life.

 

Audience and Agenda: The article’s location is within a portfolio for Benton.  It is something he is doing with his personal time and he doesn’t necessarily need any funding for the website to be up and running.  However, the articles was published by the Dallas Morning News, which gives an indication of where the push for the article came from.  The Dallas Morning Newspaper is owned by a corporation called A. H. Bello.  Upon even a quick glance of the front page, it is obvious that this paper stems a right-sided base for its articles—very critical of Obama already.  Thus, the audience would more than likely be republican minded individuals in the Texas area.  The paper is also claiming to be supporter of education and this article shows that perhaps that may in fact be true. 

 

Usefulness:  This article is another plan that has been implemented in another school as a way to retain teachers.  I am actually discovering that schools seem to be finding ways to do this on their own and the need for the government to create a way of doing this may not be a necessary ordeal.  This article with the others that I’ve read show that many schools that have struggled have also found ways to fix the problems by working as a community or an entity that figures things out over time.  The issue here may be more along the lines of funding, which would be an issue dealing with the stimulus package that is being enacted right now.  Perhaps people don’t want education to receive a portion of that money.  This article reassures me that the problem of teacher retention does exist and perhaps I need to look into more divided districts such as Dallas to track down how multi-district cities are struggling to provide worthwhile education to all of their students.  This article opened up that door and the program of incentives they implemented in Chattanooga seems to be new compared to the others I’ve read about already. 

 

Work Cited:  I found this article while Googling around looking for information.

 

 

 

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