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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: SOS chatter

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: SOS chatter:


SOS chatter

Keynoters Deb Meier & Nancy Carlsson-Paige
I tried to explain to Teaching Now blogger Liana Heitin who was reposed by Edweek's Stephen Sawchuck, that it was okay that last weekend's SOS Convention was actually smaller  and less celebrity-studded than last summer's march and White House rally.

Others told Liana (who I find to be an otherwise highly capable and astute ed writer) that a march and a meeting have two different purposes and that one is often smaller than the other and that SOS was fine with that.

It was also okay that Diane Ravitch, Matt Damen (and the