Wednesday, March 23, 2011

NYC Educator: There Is Sanity Out There. (You Just Have to Find It.)

NYC Educator: There Is Sanity Out There. (You Just Have to Find It.)

There Is Sanity Out There. (You Just Have to Find It.)

Here's a piece by Linda Darling-Hammond. She did not prove to be the darling of the "reform" crowd, which prevailed upon our eager-to-compromise President to hire Arne Duncan, whose Rennaissance 2010, an abysmal failure, needed to be replicated for the entire US of A. There's a very good reason Darling Hammond is not popular in "reform" circles.

She actually looks at what works, and thinks about it:

In a statement rarely heard these days in the United States, the Finnish Minister of Education launched the first session of last week's with the words: "We are very proud of our teachers."

That is indeed rare in these parts. All I ever hear about is