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Monday, March 14, 2011

Last Stand for Children First: Last Stand for Children Calls for an End to Rewarding More Experienced Education Reformers

Last Stand for Children First: Last Stand for Children Calls for an End to Rewarding More Experienced Education Reformers

Last Stand for Children Calls for an End to Rewarding More Experienced Education Reformers


You may have noticed that we have not been as active in this blog lately. I would like to apologize for that, but we have had a hard time promoting our reform group. The problem is innovative reformers such as ourselves are constantly finding ourselves cut out of the best paying and highest profile speaking gigs in favor of the usual suspects---Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, Geoffrey Canada, Checker Finn, Stand for Children, GOOD, SMERSH, Students First, and DFER are well known and hence always have another speaking engagement or paycheck waiting.

The problem is groups like ours who are newer are more innovative. We aren't tied to the same failed policies of reform that haven't worked over the past 10 or