Why are so many education "reformers" graduates of non-public schools?
That is what Michael Winerip writes about in today's New York Times in a piece titled In Public School Efforts, a Common Background: Private Education Let me list those whom he mentions:
Three of the four original sponsors of No Child Left Behind
Sen. Judd Gregg Phillips Exeter, Exeter NH
Sen. Ted Kennedy Milton Adademy, Milton MA
John Boehner Archbishop Moeller, Cincinnati OH
The Bush Brothers, George W and Jeb, both Phillips Andover in MA
President Barack Obama Punahoe School, Honolulu HA
Sec. of Education Arne Duncan U of Chicago Lab School, Chicago IL
Michelle Rhee Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Oh
Mitt Romney Cranbrook School Bloomfield Hills MI
Davis Guggenheim ("Waiting for Superman") Sidwell Friends School, Washington DC
Bill Gates Lakeside School, Seattle WA
Chester Finn President of the Fordham Foundation Phillips Exeter
David Levin, co-founder of KIPP Riverdale Country Day School, Bronx NY
Cathy Black, immediate past Chancellor NYC Schools Aquinas Dominican High School, Chicago
Merryll H. Tisch Chair NY State Board of Regents Ramaz School, NY City (Manhattan)
David M Steiner, NY State Commissioner of Education Perse School, Cambridge, England
Steven Brill - advocate for charters Deerfield Academy, Deerfield MA
Marc Sternberg Deputy Chancellor NYC who moves charters into public buildings
Episcopal School, Baton Rouge, La
Let me offer a few observations from Winerip and a few comments of my own