Save Our Schools March leaders answer White House invitation
Organizers of Saturday’s Save Our Schools March in Washington, D.C., have declined an invitation to meet today at the White House with education advisers to President Obama, saying they would instead be available after the march.
The march, to protest the Obama administration’s corporate-driven education-reform policies, has been in the planning stages for about a year. Some of its organizers have tried for months to get the attention of the White House through letters and blogposts. Suddenly, a few days before the march itself, an invitation was issued for a meeting today.
Read full article >>The battle cry of Tiger Mother ex-chancellor Rhee
Will someone please tell former D.C. Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee that she has already told us, over and over again, how much her two daughters “suck” at soccer and that she can stop disparaging their athletic abilities in public?
Rhee, who quit as D.C. schools boss last October and took to the national stage as a proponent of test-based assessment systems, vouchers and charter schools, just gave yet another speech complaining that America has become one big, soft, anti-competitive marshmallow because parents keep telling their kids they are great when they aren’t.
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