The Education War – Who is winning?
The word “quagmire” gets thrown around pretty casually these days.
Civil unrest. “Nation building.” Revolutions. Economic crisis. Natural disasters. The Q-word has been used repeatedly for so many of the dangerous, sticky situations we find ourselves as a society.
Yet does the education war—the clash of “reformers” that has stretched over a decade—deserve the dreaded label?
It depends on what you hear.
Many news outlets, in print and online, picture the education reform movement as clearly on the defensive. Attacks on charter schools have increased as never before, viewed as undemocratic, tyrannical and ultimately ineffective. The latest report on how Eva Moskowitz’ Success Academy charter schools were
