The strange take on SOS by Education Week. Who wasn’t there?
John Dewey wasn’t there. He was somewhere else.
SOS Event Draws Small Crowd said the headline in Ed Week Teacher.
They went on to say, “In sharp contrast to last summer’s celebrity-attended rally and march to the White House, the Save Our Schools gathering this year proved a quiet, 150-person affair.”
Well yes. And in sharp contrast to the Million Man March, the dinner party at my house proved a quiet, 6-person affair.
Did someone explain to Ed Week reporter Liana Heitin the difference between a demonstration and a conference?
A couple of hundred education activists, teachers and academics meet in sweltering Washington DC in August