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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: It's Not About Reform; It's About the Reformers

Jersey Jazzman: It's Not About Reform; It's About the Reformers:


It's Not About Reform; It's About the Reformers

Exactly one year ago today, I wrote something I have thought, from time to time, about taking back. This was right after Derrell Bradford announced he was leaving E3 to start B4K, NJ's premiere anti-tenure lobbying shop. I thought it was important to point how ridiculous it was for Bradford to have any power to move education policy:
Derrell is a spectacularly unqualified member of Christie's task force in charge of screwing teachers eliminating tenure. He lives to hobnob with the rich and famous. He has admitted that his is banal platitudes and faux digital hipster shtick are nothing more than a cheap attempt to advance his career. He is Michelle Rhee with a bad Horatio Alger story grafted on to his bio.

His arguments are slick but facile. He has no command of actual research on teacher