Education
On School Reform Michelle Rhee and Democracy
On Tuesday Sam Seder and I had a brief discussion during his daily web broadcast The Majority Report that touched on some points I made in my post here last week The Empty Rhetoric of School "Reform" (with broken links fixed – my apologies). We ventured into other...
The Empty Rhetoric of School Reform
It’s getting really hard to look at the distorted rhetoric of today’s debate about public schools and NOT see it in the same whorish light as other political discussions of the day. Just as we’re being stoked with down-is-up claims that tax cuts balance government...
As Public Schools Teeter on the Brink Our Leaders Look the Other Way
Imagine taking your child to her first day of kindergarten and finding out that there won’t be a teacher for the class of 30 children until October. Imagine being a working family with two young children barely getting from paycheck to paycheck and getting told that...
