Meier: Partisan mindsets and teacher collegiality
This was written by prominent educator Deborah Meier on her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with historian Diane Ravitch on the Education Week website. Meier and Ravitch exchange letters about what matters most in education. Meier is the founding principal of Mission Hill School in Boston and a renowned education reformer. Her latest book, written with Brenda Engel & Beth Taylor) is "Playing for keeps: Life and learning on a public school playground." Dear Diane: ...It's a relief these days to shift from contemplating the ugly takeover of our public institutions by private wealth—at a time when these very same people have undermined the economy of the nation itself—to talk about what fascinated me for 45 years. It was not the politics of schooling. A new book by Ryan Teves that just arrived in my mailbox is worth reading. Teves is a math and science secondary school teacher who
