Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Queens Teacher: The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond

Queens Teacher: The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond

The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond

Gerald Bracey
The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond


When Senator Clinton was still a candidate for president, both she and Senator Obama sought counsel from an educator friend of mine. He told them both not to say anything about education. No matter what you say, he told me that he told them, you're going to make a lot of people mad (he made his point in more colorful language). Oh, man, how right can you be?

In the run-up to Obama's picking a secretary, two sides formed in a debate over the desiderata for a secretary and might have duked it out, but only one side was permitted to throw punches in public. It wasn't Dems vs. the GOP.