Why We All Need to Put Quotation Marks Around Education “Reform”
Are you listening, Malcom Gladwell? I think we’re at a tipping point in education “reform.” This weekend Gail Collins wrote about the obscene amount of money the 1% are making from education. Gail Collins does not suffer fools gladly, people. Recall the number of times she called our attention to the fateful trip Mitt Romney’s family took to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of his car? It’s now entered our collective conscious with its very own website. If Gail Collins can do that about a dog, imagine what she can do for education.Lisa Graves, Executive Director of Media and Democracy, keeps adding notches to her virtual belt as she ticks off the corporations who have resigned from ALEC. Fourteen and counting. She named names until the rest of