Elizabeth Alsop, a Writers’ Institute alum, has just published this essay in The New York Times Magazine:
In his State of the Union address in 2011, President Obama made a point of applauding the nation’s teachers and exhorted Americans to do the same. “In South Korea,” Obama reminded us, “teachers are known as ‘nation builders.’ . . . It’s time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect.”
Out in TV land, however, we’ve been receiving a different message. Read more…
