Reform vs. Anti-Reform: Quoth the Raven - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

Reform vs. Anti-Reform: Quoth the Raven - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher:

Reform vs. Anti-Reform: Quoth the Raven

by Nancy Flanagan

Dear Alexander Russo,

So here I am, with the final hours of bleak December ticking away, casting about for the right hook to write aboutEducation Reform in 2011: The Big Picture.

Go with a top ten list? Ten signs of hope? Pushback against dark corporate forces? Bright and cheery? Downand dreary?

While I pondered, weak and weary, came a Google alert winging (flinging! singing!) to my inbox. Anthony Russo labeled me--and other progressive education thinkers-- Goliaths! Says we're dominating the on-line fight against slingshot-wielding "Davids." Two of these feisty, underfunded David exemplars sprang to mind for Russo:StudentsFirst and Stand for Children.

Right.

There are several ways to understand/respond to your recent post, Mr. Russo. I'm not sure