tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post7293333475802037889..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Reformster Calls for Attack on UnionsPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-85718084995833027042016-07-22T07:13:23.125-04:002016-07-22T07:13:23.125-04:00After all the charts that have come to light showi...After all the charts that have come to light showing the money trail from Bill Gates & The Koch Brothers and The Waltons to various reform causes, I find Cook's outrage over union funding to be laughable. He certainly is....interesting (and apparently thinks Neo-Liberal is a made-up hippie term? LOL).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-211632955301176312016-07-21T15:58:20.158-04:002016-07-21T15:58:20.158-04:00I find this part of your post very misleading:
&q...I find this part of your post very misleading:<br /><br />"some of Bernie Sander's delegates to the platform committee managed to add some language that dramatically broadened the definition of a bad charter school-- broad enough that the definition is now "most of them." Then, while addressing the gathering of the AFT, Clinton spoke as if maybe she had actually read the final platform and was going along with it."<br /><br />First, I cannot find anything in the Dem platform that defines a bad charter school. Maybe you can. Please point me there if you can. And your link did not help.<br /><br />Secondly, there is nothing that I find in Clinton's AFT speech this year that would indicate any change to her love for charter schools. What she said was "where there are public charter schools, we will learn from them." How is that any indication that she has read the flabby and meaningless platform, which, in the end, doubles down on support for charter schools and for putting more of the most vulnerable children in them--even though charters are notorious for neglecting the needs of ELL and special ed students. James Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-74448246315862369582016-07-20T14:27:18.273-04:002016-07-20T14:27:18.273-04:00So Cook taught math at a KIPP school when his cred...So Cook taught math at a KIPP school when his credentials are a BA in European history? Nice.<br /><br />It's certainly encouraging that, since the changes to the Democratic platform, Hillary has changed her rhetoric and Shavar Jeffries, the president of DFER, says that the platform has been "hijacked" so that it is now an "unfortunate departure from President Obama's historic legacy". Yay!<br /><br />It's interesting that Hillary, in her speech, drew a parallel between Dallas police chief David Brown's words after the Dallas shootings -- that we're asking too much of police, expecting them to correct all of society's ills -- and what's expected of schools and teachers. I made the same association when President Obama made a similar statement about police the day before the shootings.<br /><br />You're right: reformster policies suck. Very good point about product vs. process. Reformsters always think there's nothing wrong with their product, there's just an "implementation" problem, or that that they need to change up their PR instead of asking if people really want (or need) the product they're selling.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.com