Thursday, April 26, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Best Piece on Education This Year

Jersey Jazzman: Best Piece on Education This Year:


Best Piece on Education This Year

Seriously, it is, from Paul Thomas:
One distinct flaw in that development has been a trickle-down effect reaching from presidents and governors to state superintendents of education and school board chairs and members: people who have no or very little experience or expertise as educators or scholars attain leadership positions responsible for forming and implementing education policy. 
The faces and voices currently leading the education reform movement in the U.S. are appointees and self-proclaimed reformers who, while often well-meaning, lack significant expertise or experience in education: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, billionaire