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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Shanker Blog � We Interrupt this Message

Shanker Blog � We Interrupt this Message

WE INTERRUPT THIS MESSAGE

So, I’m reading an opinion piece by Harold Meyerson in the online edition of yesterday’s Washington Post. Meyerson starts by talking about how teachers’ unions get blamed for everything. All of a sudden, in the middle of the text, right after the second paragraph, the piece is interrupted by the following message:

(Watch a video of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee discussing the D.C. Public School system.)

Strange, I thought. Then, right after Meyerson gets going again, criticizing “Waiting for Superman” and hailing the