Most of the educated blame seems to go towards the teacher's unions, which have always been heavily against accountability for teachers, in favor of seniority p

Most of the educated blame seems to go towards the teacher's unions, which have always been heavily against accountability for teachers, in favor of seniority protections, so that the worst teachers can't be fired. Standardized testing, for all it's shortcomings, is equally bad for them, since it reflects on which teachers are the worst performing. Low testing scores due to poverty is a poor defense since such deviations can easily be controlled for, as is commonly done in statistics-based research. Teacher unions constantly fighting to kill educational reform has been a recurring theme in most all reform initiatives, including Zuckerberg's.[1] There are numerous documentaries (e.g. Waiting for Superman, The Cartel, etc.) covering attempts at reform and how the one thing the unions will never allow is holding bad teachers accountable. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-failed-100-million-donation-to-newark-public-schools-2015-9 http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-failed-100-m...