What We’re Watching: Key & Peele’s ‘TeachingCenter’

In a new sketch from Comedy Central’s Key & Peele, teachers are given the sports star treatment on an ESPN-like show called TeachingCenter.

As described by Sarene Leads of the Wall Street Journal

On “TeachingCenter,” you’ll meet Ruby Ruhf, who announces via press conference that she’s leaving Ohio to return to New York, having received an offer she “couldn’t refuse”: $80 million over the next six years, along with “an additional $40 million in incentives based on test scores.”

There are big-media events like the “teacher draft picks” at Radio City Music Hall, and there’s also a play-by-play analysis of teaching style, examining how these educators successfully increase students’ level of participation

— Education Next

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