NYC Educator: NY Times' Kristof Tackles Pernicious Fallacies

NYC Educator: NY Times' Kristof Tackles Pernicious Fallacies

NY Times' Kristof Tackles Pernicious Fallacies

by NYC Educator

NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is demanding wepay teachers more. Sounds good, doesn't it? Which teacher couldn't use more money? It kind of makes you think he's pro-teacher. And it would be true, if it weren't for the fact that no one is actually offering teachers more money, and the priority in these United States is not compensation for teachers, but lowering taxes for Steve Forbes.

Nonetheless, you'd think the man who declared qualifications for teachers were so onerous that Meryl Streep and Colin Powell couldn't get classroom jobs(despite the fact that neither had expressed the remotest interest in them) had finally come to his senses.

But like the Republicans, who claim it's in the public's best interest to strip working people of bargaining rights, Kristof tosses out misleading headlines and