Joel Klein’s bumpy learning curve on the path to radical change
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein plotted big ideas throughout his tenure — and sometimes revised them.
When NBC New York broke the story that Joel Klein was about to resign yesterday, the news organization’s report summarized his tenure this way:
He is credited with ending the practice of social promotion but had a somewhat controversial reputation throughout his tenure.
The rest of the description closely mirrored Klein’s curiously incomplete Wikipedia entry, which highlights a 2005 First Amendment spat over a teacher training lecturer as a main feature of his chancellorship.
Wikipedia, use this instead: Klein brought a penchant for radical transformation to the New York City public schools, redrawing the basics of how schools are run, opening hundreds of new schools and closing dozens of