A superintendent calls school reformers’ bluff
Written by John Kuhn for Valerie Strauss’s The Answer Sheet. Read the entire post here.
“So I’m calling on reformers — Kress and Rhee included — to lend support for a new kind of reform, one that steps outside the schoolhouse and shares the onus for achievement with more than just teachers.
I’m calling for data-driven equality, modeled on Kress’s work, expanding it to force greater societal changes that will help teachers bridge the achievement gap.“
The most important speech on education in years
Written by TeacherKen for the DailyKos. Read the entire post here.
“So today we see Wall Street hedge funders and billionaires saying that they are leading the civil rights movement of our time. I have trouble imagining Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., walking arm in arm with billionaires in a crusade to privatize control of public education.“