As many have highlighted, the media turns to almost anyone except educators when dealing with education topics such as evaluating and paying teachers (ask an economist), teaching reading (ask a psychologist), expanding charter schools (ask a political scientist), or creating national standards (which apparently requires a degree in philosophy).
Therefore based on my experiences as a student (nobody asks a student about anything), as a public school classroom teacher (nobody asks a teacher anything), and as an “ivory tower” academic (really? ask a professor?) who graduated from state schools with an undergraduate and two graduate degrees in education, I have now begun work on my next book:
I am eager to speak with publishers, and any media outlet interested in a guest Op-Ed or an interview!
dr. p.l. (paul) thomas 
Reblogged this on joustingwiththeimagination and commented:
As a former teacher myself, I can state categorically, that no one gives a toss about what teachers thinks. Being an Englishman I am predisposed to bouts of humourless melancholy, but I do find it bitterly hilarious that the Chinese, a government who collect accusations of fascism like schoolboys collect football stickers, let their educators be the masters of their education system and the default experts.