The Self-Delusion of the Corporate Education Reformer
ACTING Education Commissioner Chris Cerf gave a speech. You can sit through the entire thing (lord help you), or you can skip to one telling quote I transcribed below.
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(42:15) In the end of the day, none of this matters, as someone said today, because, whether you have an enlightened despotism or a diffusion of power, at the end of the day it has a great deal to do with who's in charge.I look at New York City, for example, and mayoral control was the necessary condition for the kind of change that we experienced. It could not have happened without it. And then I look with some