Waiting for Superman to Tell the Truth? (Don’t Hold Your Breath) – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

Waiting for Superman to Tell the Truth? (Don’t Hold Your Breath) – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:

Waiting for Superman to Tell the Truth? (Don’t Hold Your Breath)

by plthomasedd

The least accountable among us are those at the top making grand statements (unverified, unchallenged) used to call for the accountable of everyone else.

I invite you to read carefully Canada’s Legend-ary TED Talk Lie by Gary Rubinstein to understand how corrosive the “miracle” school narrative is when it is combined with the cult of personality (Canada as Superman, Rhee as the Tiger Mom, Duncan as NBA Celebrity Basketball Player, and Bill Gates as Know-It-All Billionaire Next Door) and a passive media owned by those celebrities.

After you read Gary’s excellent unmasking, read further a reposting on the “Harlem” miracle and other pieces I’ve done confronting this narrative that isn’t true but won’t die. See also related posts on Canada’s HCZ from Aaron Pallas added below.

Reconsidering Education “Miracles” (OpEdNews, 8/17/2010)

“We may have found a remedy for the achievement gap,” concluded David Brooks in