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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

#Cagebusting 101 | EduShyster

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#Cagebusting 101

Everything that’s wrong with the contemporary education reform movement—wrapped up in a single, noxious term.
If you have managed to live your life so far without once uttering the expression “cage busting,” alas your luck has run out. The first rule of cage busting is that you have to talk about cage busting—alot. But what does this mysterious term mean, and from whence did it come? But what does this mysterious term mean, and from whence did it come? Reader: I give you Dr. Rick Hess, the designated intellectual of the education reform movement, and expert on all things cage busting.
#cagebusting 101
Just as unions stifle our public schools and prevent them from being excellent and innovative, the dreaded education bureaucracy also prevents many of our best leaders from becoming the great leaders their paychecks indicate that they can be. In other words, the most excellent leaders don’t just wallow in the ‘culture of can’t,’ their cages of ‘good enough’ lined with hundreds of pages taken directly from the bloated union contract. They