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Friday, April 22, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm, Arne, Brizard -- Please read this article

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm, Arne, Brizard -- Please read this article

Rahm, Arne, Brizard -- Please read this article

Pedro Noguera and Michelle Fine, writing in The Nation, assure us (why is this even necessary?) thatTeachers Aren't the Enemy.
It’s hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

If clichés were hoops, he would be in the NBA.
"If you look at (education) as a civil rights issue, as an economic imperative, as an issue of national security -- I look at it through all three of those lenses -- we have to get better faster than we ever have in education."

Arne, how about looking at education once in a while, as teaching, learning, growth and