Annotated Bibliography

Do Teachers Benefits Help the Good Teachers or the Bad?

Nahim Kashani
Professor Malcolm Campbell
March 12, 2015

Brown, Sidney E. "Teacher Tenure." Education 99.1 (1978): 12-15. 360 Link.
Web. 7 Mar. 2015.
This article explains what tenure is. It also goes into detail on how and why it was
created. The article includes many facts with specific names and dates. It explores why
school boards may think tenure simply protects incompetent teachers and why tenure
may be helpful. Overall, this article is fair and unbiased to either side. This made it
helpful to see both sides arguments and fully understand the reasoning behind eachThis
is a credible, peer-reviewed source written by Sidney E. Brown. . This article will be
extremely helpful in describing what tenure is to the reader. Having background
information on one of the most important benefits that was taken from teachers is
essential in informing my readers. The audience must fully understand why tenure is such
a big and touchy subject. By taking the reader through an overview of how it came to be,
they will be able to engage and pick a side much easier. This source is the most unbiased
of all my sources, and I think it will really help my paper balance between both sides.

"Career Status Fact Sheet." NCAE North Carolina Association of Educators. N.p., n.d. Web. 8
Mar. 2015.
This source comes straight from NCAE. Throughout their website they talk have
statements and articles explaining their position on almost everything in education. This
particular article explains what career status is and how no longer having it affects
teachers. NCAE does not agree with the legislatures decision to get rid of career status.
They explain one major issue is that teachers can be dissmissed at anytime, without any
reason. NCAE is definitaley a biased source. It is an association created to protect and
help teachers in North Carolina. However, it is a very credible in source when trying to
understand how the teachers feel. This article will be extremely useful in explaining what
career status is and what importance it holds to teachers. It will also help to discuss the
lawsuit filed against North Carolina by NCAE because they mention reasoning for the
lawsuit in this article. While this article is similar to my lawsuit source it expands on the
topic in more ways than simply trying to prove the state wrong.

Dewitt, Dave. "Pay Cuts, End Of Tenure Put North Carolina Teachers On Edge." NPR. NPR, 11
Feb. 2014. Web. 7 Mar. 2015.
In this NPR article the writer, Dave Dewitt, discusses the changes in North Carolina
public education. He states the three major changes teachers in the state have been
expericiencing. Teacher tenure, increased pay with masters degree, and no cap on class
sizes. Dewitt also briefly describes the living conditions of a North Carolina teacher due
to the insufficient salary. Overall this article states the facts plainly with only a hint of
bias for the teachers side. His use of one teachers living conditions/struggles to make
ends meet, make the reader feel sympathy for the teachers and less understanding for the
legislatures changing the laws. This is a popular source because it came from NPR. For
this reason it is reliable information. My only concern for the source is that a list of
refrences cannot be found on the page. This article was extremely helpful for me because
it is straight-forward. It simply states the changes to the laws and also has personal
example of what an average teacher is going through. This article has slightly affected the
way I view the topic.

North Carolina Association of Educators, INC., Richard J. Nixon, Rhonda Holmes, Brian Link,
Annette Beatty, Stephanie Wallace, and John Deville v. The State of North Carolina. 14.
Wake County. 17 Dec. 2013. Ncae.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Mar. 2015.
This document is a very informative lawsuit. The lawsuit explains exactly why North
Carolina teachers are angry. It states what benefits have been taken from them and why
that is unconstitutional in their eyes. The document is definitely biased in that it was
written by teachers in favor of teachers who want the benefits back. The document is
extremely reliable in understanding why teachers are angry and how these changes have
affected them. It was written by teachers and members of NCAE (North Carolina
Association of Educators).This source was created to inform North Carolinas
government on the issues teachers have with the changes in law. This source if definitely
different than my others because it is straight from teachers and it shows that teachers are
trying to fight back. This source was extremely helpful in understanding the concerns
teachers have with the changes. It clearly states what the problem is and why it is a
problem. I will be using this in my paper as I discuss the teachers view on the topic.