Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Interesting week for our public school colleagues

Many public school educators feel that they were thrown under the bus this
week in NBC's Education Nation series and in the new movie "Waiting for
Superman."

Larry Ferlazzo has collected a number of blog posts from educators on this
subject here:
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/09/26/the-best-posts-articles-about-the-teacher-bashing-waiting-for-superman-movie-associated-events/

Will Richardson, who many of you know and follow, was disturbed enough by
the events to write this blog post:
http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/the-wrong-conversations/

From my perspective, one of the more positive responses to the events is
this brief history of the US education system put together by Ira Socol:
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/09/designed-to-fail-education-in-america.html

Finally, if you haven't had a chance to read Diane Ravitch's "The American
School System" this brief video covers some of her main points:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_HwI6S92Eo

Fred

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