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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Can you name successful parent coup? - Class Struggle - The Washington Post

Can you name successful parent coup? - Class Struggle - The Washington Post:

Can you name successful parent coup?

Joseph Hawkins, senior study director at the Rockville.-based research group Westat, read my recent attack on the Parent Trigger Law in California and issued a challenge:

“If we put 10 hot-shot education reporters together in a room and asked this question I think the answer would be zero: ‘In the past 10 years of school reform, can you list any schools where a parent revolution took place?’”

Hawkins said he is talking about a successful parent rebellion--