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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Diane in the Evening 9-29-12 Diane Ravitch's blog

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Wendy Kopp Reviews Jonathan Kozol

As Edushyster calls it, Wendy is miffed that Jon didn’t mention TFA.
Another hilarious article from one of our best satirists.


Won’t Back Down: The Hilarious Sequel

Jersey Jazzman has written a brilliant screenplay that tells what happened after the characters in the movie opened their charter school.
This is hilarious!



A Teacher Responds to “Won’t Back Down”

Julie Cavanaugh is a special education teacher at PS 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
She was one of the makers of the documentary “The Inconvenient Truth Behind ‘Waiting for Superman’”
She now reviews “Won’t Back Down” and explains what is really necessary to reform schools today.



Is It Really “All About the Kids”?

The review in the New York Times of the anti-union film makes an important point: when people loudly insist that “it’s all about the kids,” you can be sure that it’s not.
As A.O. Scott puts it, “A movie that insists, repeatedly and at high volume, that ‘it’s all about the kids’ might just cause you to wonder what else it is about, and this one is not shy about showing its ideological hand.”
Surely, you have noticed how often the corporate reformers use terms like “children first,” “students first,”