Neighborhood Public Schools Are Where It’s At
A detail of the mural outside The Barclay School in Charles Village. Photo credit: Adam Bednar, North Baltimore Patch
Here’s some brain food to tide you over between now and the end of Thanksgiving Weekend. (I’m going on vacation.)
There’s a lot of good stuff on the problems with top-down education reform in Dana Goldstein‘s extended essay on Occupy Wall Street and public education, published yesterday in The Awl. Here’s the choicest bit:
… the 1-percent education reformers must truly grasp, deep in their bones, that we need to provide every
