Perazza 2011b

• teachers laws from teh 1950s set up lots of rights/features, icnluding stability in employment, skills training, and good benefits (29)
• ley 13047 states that government would make sure private teachers were paid as much as public school teachers (unclear if this is still in effect) (29)
• the decentralization demanded that the provinces set up their own education systems, and to do so they had to deal with the expectations set up by the laws from the 1950s (30)
• but they also had to do so in the context of a fiscal crisis, so they had to make cuts
• Argentina is an interesting case, as improving teachers careers and working conditions doesn't need to be accompanied by a change in law necessarily (31)
• these norms mean that innovations will basically always result in conflict, so the key is figuring out how to create policies that will allow for innovation but also make it match a norm so that teachers will actually implement it (32)
• three issues to show this
• first, evaluation of teachers
• would be nice to have best practices
• but these things tend to be ignored just to avoid conflict with teachers
• second, teacher capacity
• there is a sort of race to get credentials, but these institutions vary in quality a great deal (33)
• need to have more structured demands of what constitutes improvement in qualifications
• make sure raises are transparent (33)
• when rules are made up but aren't fully explained, these become obstacle to implementation adn measurement (34)
• the state just needs to take a more active role in the education system, set up and define the norms of the industry better! (34)