I’ve often said that the moment you try to run schools like a business you succeed only in running it like the worst type of top down autocratic business where the big bosses make edicts that have nothing to do with the job reality of their work force. In other words, think of Chrysler in [...]
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Goals Gone Wild
January 15, 2010Teach Locally, but Think Nationally
December 9, 2009I’ve been getting a lot of traffic from Washington, DC lately on both of my blogs because of the writing that I’ve done on Michelle Rhee. To my mind, Washington is definitely ground zero in the battle to privatize our schools. What Michelle Rhee has done with her summary firings in our nation’s capital should [...]
Why Teacher Accountability Flounders
November 30, 2009“If you catch a man a fish you can sell it to him. If you teach a man to fish you lose a wonderful business opportunity.” -Groucho Marx. There was a blog post that I saw on twitter today from the ironically named Charter School Insights blog. The post was entitled Michelangelo with a fillet [...]
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