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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: A biblical school reform metaphor

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: A biblical school reform metaphor:

A biblical school reform metaphor

But who's David and who's Goliath?
There's a strange dynamic going on inside the online education reform debate in which the well-funded reformers play the role of wimpy David and the scrappy traditional educators are Goliath. --Alexander Russo
I've got to hand it to provocateur metaphor-mixing Russo. He got some of my fellow SOSers and current reform critics to take the bait by referring to them as mighty Goliaths overpowering the wimpy Davids of corporate school reform in internet combat.

Russo, a paid blogger for Scholastic, got what he was after -- someone to take