Equity, Schmequity
Elitism and the education reform movement
Like many of your fine states, Massachusetts is now home to a veritable alphabet-soup of education reform groups, albeit a can in which the letters FER seem to be somewhat overrepresented. Just yesterday, for example, a reader sent me a notice from a new chapter of a student reform group at Tufts University, headed up by a young equestrienne whose own secondary education came courtesy of a $33,000 private school. She is helping to mobilize the next generation of education reform leaders by reaching out to fellow students who “[h]ad a bad public school experience” and are interested in help[ing] out in charter school events around in the Boston area.“
When the members of this next generation of reformers graduate and become the current generation of reformers, they will have plenty of reform-minded organizations to add to their LinkedIn profiles. There is DFER, for example, which, in Massachusetts, is headed by a pedigreed young gentleman who spends his days penning passionate op-eds about choice, excellence and innovation. I will not dwell on his biography here, as I have
Like many of your fine states, Massachusetts is now home to a veritable alphabet-soup of education reform groups, albeit a can in which the letters FER seem to be somewhat overrepresented. Just yesterday, for example, a reader sent me a notice from a new chapter of a student reform group at Tufts University, headed up by a young equestrienne whose own secondary education came courtesy of a $33,000 private school. She is helping to mobilize the next generation of education reform leaders by reaching out to fellow students who “[h]ad a bad public school experience” and are interested in help[ing] out in charter school events around in the Boston area.“When the members of this next generation of reformers graduate and become the current generation of reformers, they will have plenty of reform-minded organizations to add to their LinkedIn profiles. There is DFER, for example, which, in Massachusetts, is headed by a pedigreed young gentleman who spends his days penning passionate op-eds about choice, excellence and innovation. I will not dwell on his biography here, as I have