Up and Coming? Who's Doing the Real Work in Education?
So--Sara Mead is again highlighting 17 "up and coming" edu-preneurs who will "lead the transformation of education in this country in the coming generation," in her Policy Notebook blog. Mead says she:
...built this list by asking for recommendations from people I respect in the education field, including my Bellwether education colleagues, leaders of education reform and policy organizations, writers and analysts, and, most importantly, last year's list of Next Generation Leaders.Her list includes many "founders" and "executives" of charter schools, non-profits created to demean collective bargaining and teachers' control over their own profession, rising neo-liberal stars in higher education and psychometrics--and players in the USDOE's efforts to "respect" teachers rhetorically, if not in policy. Those up and coming in the new "opportunity culture" of the wide-open education marketplace.