I think we're talking about a difference in timescales. My experience is that culture naturally converges to incentives, but very slowly.
If we were to evaluate teachers in ways which didn't align to tests (or not at all), put in mechanisms to fire bad teachers, added transparency and accountability (so parents know what's going wrong and can try to advocate to fix it), etc. we would have a whole new teaching culture... circa 2044.
A faster reboot is possible, but with more disruption (e.g. wholesale firing). Disruption is harmful in several ways, from impacting morale and stability (making it more difficult to bring in qualified people), to having experienced people leave, to simply taking time to learn how to work in the new order. Whether a disruption is warranted depends on the level of organizational dysfunction.
The current set of dysfunctions in schools specifically are grounded in a narrow tests which were implemented in 2002. Schools have increasingly broken, as anything not in Common Core was increasingly ignored, and schools competed on the only measure they were evaluated on.
If we were to evaluate teachers in ways which didn't align to tests (or not at all), put in mechanisms to fire bad teachers, added transparency and accountability (so parents know what's going wrong and can try to advocate to fix it), etc. we would have a whole new teaching culture... circa 2044.
A faster reboot is possible, but with more disruption (e.g. wholesale firing). Disruption is harmful in several ways, from impacting morale and stability (making it more difficult to bring in qualified people), to having experienced people leave, to simply taking time to learn how to work in the new order. Whether a disruption is warranted depends on the level of organizational dysfunction.
The current set of dysfunctions in schools specifically are grounded in a narrow tests which were implemented in 2002. Schools have increasingly broken, as anything not in Common Core was increasingly ignored, and schools competed on the only measure they were evaluated on.