How To Talk Like a Reformer
I had promised myself that I was done with Laura Waters and her increasingly insipid blog; however, this post is so typical of the shallow and lazy thinking of the corporate reformers that I have to point it out.
Laura has not only signed on to the whole Cerf-Christie-Rhee-Gates-Broad-whomever agenda; she's absorbed the language of their propaganda so completely into her muscles that it now spasms out of her like a reflex:
Laura has not only signed on to the whole Cerf-Christie-Rhee-Gates-Broad-whomever agenda; she's absorbed the language of their propaganda so completely into her muscles that it now spasms out of her like a reflex:
NJEA President Barbara Keshishian has a piece in the Star-Ledger today lambasting the Jersey paper for a general lack of support and for
What Corporate Reform Is Really About
As I've been writing about the corporate reform movement over the past year, I've been thinking a lot about the reasons why a group of plutocrats would push this clearly insane agenda on to our schools.
I've come to realize I've focused most of my writing on two reasons:
1) It distracts from the real reasons for the "achievement gap" and for our current fiscal mess. Income inequity and a tax policy that favors the wealthy are far more responsible for the state of our nation than teacher tenure or pensions; the right-wing needs to find any