Teachers' Union Head Randi Weingarten's "Balancing Act"
The fermenting education reform movement has several fascinating figures: There's the Dumbledore-like sage of the sometimes controversial Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada. There's Michelle Rhee, who seems to be starring in a humorless version of Blazing Saddles in Washington, D.C., with real victims (namely, children being left behind). And, perhaps most intriguing, there is Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, who, in the past, I've described as a robotic slave to her own talking points.
Reformers heap the majority of the blame for our failing public school
