That's the gist of this interview in the Washington Post yesterday.
Actually, the headline is "The World's Most Famous Teacher BLASTS School Reform" (my emphasis).
The teacher in question is Rafe Esquith who teaches in Room 56 of Hobart Elementary in Los Angeles. Here's why the writer of the article calls Mr. Esquith the "World's Most Famous Teacher"
*When he goes to China he is so popular he needs security guards to protect him from the crush of the crowds.
*He is the only K-12 teacher to be awarded the president’s National Medal of the Arts.
*Queen Elizabeth made him a member of the British Empire.
*The Dalai Lama gave him the Compassion in Action Award.
*He has turned down requests to have a Hollywood movie made about his work.
*A documentary, “The Atticus Finch of Hobart Elementary,” was made about the famous Shakespeare program he has run for years at Hobart, where all of his students appear in at least one full-length production a year. The English actor Ian McKellen actually noticed some of Esquith’s young students mouthing the words to a Shakespearean play in which he was performing in Los Angeles.
*He has been given the Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award, Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life Award, and Disney’s National Outstanding Teacher of the Year award.
He’s gotten more awards and honors, but you should have the idea by now.
So what does he have to say about "school reform" and topics like Common Core and TFA?