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Friday, February 4, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Behind the new push against teachers' unions

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Behind the new push against teachers' unions

Behind the new push against teachers' unions

FOX in full bashing mode
Paul Thomas, writing for the British Guardian, reveals some of the motives behind the current assault on teachers and their unions. He points out that the new push against teachers' unions, cloaked in discourse about the damage done by "bad" teachers, comes from the right and ironically from some Democrats, like Arne Duncan.
But the political attacks on teachers and unions, which come from both the left and the right, would likely not resonate as much as they have done, if it were not for the celebrity tour on the back of the documentary Waiting for "Superman", whose message has been perpetuated by celebrity reformers. Two of those, Bill Gates and Geoffrey