Big Brother (NJDOE) is Watching?
Diane Ravitch reports on what it's like to dare to criticize the reformyists:
I got an email last night from Leo Casey at the United Federation of Teachers, informing me that the UFT had just received a dump of emails from the New York City Department of Education, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Leo noticed that Deborah Meier and I were mentioned several times in the emails and so he shared the trove with us.Pretty ugly stuff. Read it here, in two parts, if you can open a google document:The first thing I noticed was the chummy exchanges between the public officials in change of the New York City public school system and the top dogs of the
