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Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

Visitors from Outer Space and Their Strange Ideas About Education Reform

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By Larry Sand (Scribe) on December 28th, 2011

There are those among us who think that teachers unions, collective bargaining and peer assistance review are the way to a better education for kids. They look like earthlings, but in fact are extraterrestrials. As the year draws to a close, newspapers, magazines and blogs are filled with best of andworst of lists that deal with everything imaginable. The Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force got on the bandwagon early and postedBest and Worst in American Education, 2011 in November. All solid stuff. Can a reformer not be happy about the Parent Trigger being raked over the coals, yet surviving, or that many of Michelle Rhee’s reforms are still in place despite leaving her post as D.C. Schools Chancellor after a major push from the American Federation of Teachers? On the worst list, the Task Force includes the Atlanta teacher cheating scandal and the union-orchestrated overturn of Ohio’s recent anti-collective bargaining law. Then lo and behold, we received a dispatch from Planet Ravitch on December 23rd. (Most people are not aware that