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Saturday, November 17, 2012

A Real Turkey of an Idea | EduShyster

A Real Turkey of an Idea | EduShyster:


A Real Turkey of an Idea

The recent Daily Beast Innovators Summit produced one idea so spectacularly bad that is deserving of the EduShyster “turkey” award.
For those of you who are new to the fast-paced, exciting world of great edu-idea production, allow me to bring you up to speed. The process starts by convening a great many smart people™ to discuss big ideas™ for solving complicated problems, like how to fix our union stifled public schools. For example, the Daily Beast’s recent Innovators Summit brought together bold, fresh innovators like Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee to offer their bold solutions to “help reboot America, make the world a better place, and (sometimes) even get rich in the process.”
Among the MANY great ideas that emerged from the summit was one so gloriously bad that it deserves the EduShyster Turkey award. The idea, the brain child of former lawyer Rafiq Kalam Id-Din, is to model our schools