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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Tip of the Cap, Wag of the Finger | EduShyster

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Tip of the Cap, Wag of the Finger

HatTipCartoonIt’s the height of charter cap-lifting season here in Massachusetts, which means that talk of excellence and achievement abounds—along with plenty of wagging fingers (read threats) aimed at those who would dare to stand in the way of excellence and achievement. And things officially took a turn for the crazy this week when the fervent anti-cap-sters at the Pioneer Institute charged the state’s Secretary of Education with *anti-charter bigotry,* a disorder that will soon have its own entry in the DSM
What's under the tam o' shanter of excellence and innovation turns out to be rather less than miss the eye.
Cap re-cap
First, a brief cap re-cap for those who are only now tuning in. In recent years, the Massachusetts legislature has been all but swamped by a wave of love for charter school