Schools Matter: John Merrow to America's Teachers: Trust Vulture Philanthropy

Schools Matter: John Merrow to America's Teachers: Trust Vulture Philanthropy:

John Merrow to America's Teachers: Trust Vulture Philanthropy

by Jim Horn

John Merrow will reliably parrot any corporate education scheme whose promoters will give him a spot on the stage from which to do so in a way that makes whatever fool notion he is being paid to hawk seem like his own. From a recent self-promoting ad that introduces one of his info-tisement post at HuffPo:

Two quick notes before we blog: I'll be appearing live in conversation with Dave Levin of KIPP and Eva Moskowitz of Harlem Success Academy. This event, a discussion about the charter movement, will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 21 in NYC. If you can make it, we'd love to see you there. Tickets are going fast -- so get yours here.

And as always, remember that my February 2011 book The Influence of Teachers is for sale at Amazon.

The post goes on to promote a new educators' "faith" in technology in order to solve the cheating problem that,