The perils of the ‘F-word’
Here’s a great piece on school reform by Los Angeles educator Brock Cohen. He is in the second year of a doctoral program at the University of Southern California and he works at the nonprofit Los Angeles Education Partnership, which helps build organizational capacity in high-poverty schools. He was a teacher for a dozen years in Los Angeles public schools.By Brock Cohen
I thought we were all more mature than this.
Two prominent governors have been firing off the F-word quite a bit lately in their mutual efforts to effect dramatic K-12 school reform in their respective states.
Louisiana Governor Boby Jindal used it to fulminate against the U.S. Department of Justice for its attempt to thwart the exodus of children from high-poverty public schools through the state’s voucher program.
Days later, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo blurted it out while blasting the state’s designated underperforming schools – and then all but reiterated his previous proposal to impose a “death penalty” on schools that cannot meet the accountability standards
