Teachers as Radicals: After SOS, What Now?
EducationAug 1, 2011Thanks to education commentary and policy under President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan, we don’t have to turn to George Orwell’s brilliant essays on politics and language or his classic 1984 to understand the reality of double-speak.
By the end of 2010, the education focus of the Obama administration and the U.S. Department of Education became clear:
“Nothing is more important and nothing has a greater impact on the quality of education than the quality and skill of the person standing in the front of the class—and there is so much that needs to change in the way that America