Chalkbeat Tennessee Publishes TFA/Charter Propaganda Interview
Among the education news outlets funded by Gates and others who try to push the slowly dying education reform agenda Chalkbeat is one of the better ones. Unlike The74 or Education Post, Chalkbeat does often try to be balanced and they have Matt Barnum on staff who is one of the smartest education writers out there.
So I was annoyed when I saw this interview recently published called “This teacher had a student tell her she wasn’t ‘fun.’ Here’s what that taught her about inequity.”
If you are up for it, you should read the entire interview yourself — it speaks for itself. But I’ll summarize it here with analysis.
The basic premise is that Angelique Hines a first year TFA teacher placed in a brand new charter school in Tennessee is featured in a series of interviews by Chalkbeat called “How I Teach.” The premise of the interview series, according to Chalkbeat is “Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask educators who’ve been recognized for their work how they approach their jobs.” So already there’s an issue of whether Hines is really an educator who has been recognized for her work. She has been teaching for 9 months in a brand new charter school that has no track record at all.
One thing we do know is that her students can sit with their hands folded in front of them in a very obedient way.
So the article explains its title. Hines speaks about how a student said he misses his old CONTINUE READING: Chalkbeat Tennessee Publishes TFA/Charter Propaganda Interview | Gary Rubinstein's Blog
