Tweeting Jo Anderson.
There was a tweet on the Catalyst-Chicago Twitter site that said, “Anderson: Unions’ survival depends on involvement in #edreform . Otherwise, unions that lose on “bread & butter” issues will be irrelevant.”
I didn’t count. Is that 140 characters?
“Anderson” is Jo Anderson, former Executive Director of the IEA and now a senior adviser to EdSec Arne Duncan.
It’s an oddly constructed tweet. I think I get it, but I don’t want to assume too much.
I consider Jo a friend. We saw and greeted each other just last Sunday at the rededication of Haymarket monument.
But here are some questions that occurred to me when I read the tweet.
Aren’t teacher unions involved in reform already and haven’t