9/24/2013 – Education Nation Insults Teachers
September 24, 2013 Subscribe
THIS WEEK:Do America’s Schools Stink? … School Testing Errors … U.S. Illiteracy Rates Still High … A Successful School Integration … Oregon’s Experiment With College Costs
TOP STORY
Dear NBC Education Nation, Lloyd Blankfein Is Not An ‘Education Expert’
By Jeff Bryant
“The latest indignity leveled at public school teachers came from NBC and its seasonal “back to school” Education Nation extravaganza that kicks off next week. Rather than an opportunity to make prominent the voices of teachers who do the tough work of educating the nation’s children every day, Education Nation foists onto us some of the worst actors who’ve committed egregious offenses to children and young people… the inclusion of Goldman-Sachs chairman Lloyd Blankfein raises insult to travesty. While many of Education Nation’s guest panelists have troubling track records on education – particularly Joel Klein – none of them rises to the level of the direct harm that Blankfein has meted out to the nation’s youngest citizens.”
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NEWS AND VIEWS
Do American Public Schools Really Stink? Maybe Not
Politico
“The biggest crisis facing public education is the relentless message that public education is in crisis … The percentage of kids scoring ‘below basic’ on the National Assessment of Educational Progress … has plummeted in both reading and math in both 4th and 8th grade for every racial group except Native Americans. Average reading and math scores for each subgroup in the 4th and 8th grades have also climbed steadily over the past 20 years … ‘Corporate reformers’ and ‘privatizers’ have a
