Friday, November 18, 2011
This Week In Education: Update: What Reformers & Critics Don't Quite Get About Occupy Wall Street #OWS
This Week In Education: Update: What Reformers & Critics Don't Quite Get About Occupy Wall Street:
It seems like no one can resist making comparisons between what's going on at Occupy Wall Street and what's going on in education reform. And you can't blame them. Some of school reform's most well known names -- Mike Bloomberg, Whitney Tilson, Boykin Curry, Bill Gates, Eli Broad -- are quite literally members of the 1 percent (albeit Democrats). Many other reforms aren't One Percenters but have enough of the trappings -- Ivy League educations, Rhodes Scholarships, Bain and McKinsey pedigrees, a corporate style of dressing and speaking and a certainty and rigidity about their ideas -- that they are easily lumped in. Many of their ideas -- public