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Friday, February 4, 2011

This Week In Education: Ideas: A Preliminary List Of "Non-Reform" Education Heroes

This Week In Education: Ideas: A Preliminary List Of "Non-Reform" Education Heroes

Ideas: A Preliminary List Of "Non-Reform" Education Heroes

image from dulemba.comThere was lots of behind-the-scenes reaction to last week's "wrecking ball" post. Most of the folks I sent it to seemed to think that such a thing wasn't possible given lack of money, or wise given recent inroads, or were understandably exasperated that I didn't know their heroes and accomplishments already. But there were also some examples of new and worthy stories of a more positive version of educators responding to the reform agenda including the Save Our Schools march being planned for this summer, the ongoing work of the Broader, Bolder coalition (Elaine Weiss was at the Fordham event yesterday), a call from Pedro Noguero for