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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Is Education Rephorm Phever Hereditary? | EduShyster

Is Education Rephorm Phever Hereditary? | EduShyster:


Is Education Rephorm Phever Hereditary?

There is growing evidence that rephorm phever may be genetic.
Reader: the rich are different from you and me. For starters they REALLY want to bring freshness and innovation to the public schools they didn’t attend—and they have the dough to realize their dream of a world in which every minority child will be taught by a young white teacher traverse the achievement gap with panache.
But it turns out that the species known as homo job creator-us may be handing down more than trust funds and horsemanship to their offspring. Like a Habsburg chin, a passion for education rephorm can also be passed from generation to generation.
EduShyster first became aware of said phenomenon last year when she encountered one of the phirst phamilies of rephorm: the Connecticut Sacklers. Pere Jonathan, of the OxyContin Sacklerssits on the boards of six different rephorm groups, including my personal phave: Students for Education Reform. Phortunately his daughter Madeline inherited the gene for rephorm; her “documentary,” The Lottery, chronicles the travails of four young African Americans competing to attend Eva Moskowitz’ Success Academy for Excellence, Innovation and