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Wrong Questions = Wrong Answers: Legend of the Fall, pt. IV | Dailycensored.com

Wrong Questions = Wrong Answers: Legend of the Fall, pt. IV | Dailycensored.com

Wrong Questions = Wrong Answers: Legend of the Fall, pt. IV

Newsweek journalist Daniel Lyons posed a series of questions recently to Bill Gates, a leading and powerful voice in the new school reform movement, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers—highlighting not what we need to address in our public schools but proving further that the media, celebrity/billionaire experts, and bureaucrats are themselves incompetent and should not be leading a discussion about education.

Alfie Kohn recently began to unmask the new reformer movement dominating public discourse about education and education reform:

“For a shrewd policy maker, then, the ideal formula would seem to be to let