He has done this against the wishes of these people and failed to listen to the teachers who did not want this to happen.

BBC: Sinfin Community School to be made an academy

Here are some ways we plan to listen to and to celebrate teachers at the Department of Education this week.

WHITEHOUSE: Celebrating and Listening to Our Nation��s Teachers

Now, with these teachers -- listen, with these teachers, we will actually be able to reduce class size in the first, second and third grades to an average of 18 students a class all across America.

CNN: State Of The Union

Many teachers would love to be given more educational freedom and embrace changes to the lecture-listen model of schooling.

FORBES: Beyond Assembly Line Schools