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- 08-10-2010
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Guest blog by Sabrina Stevens Shupe/Washington Post
Sabrina Stevens Shupe is a teacher and education advocate who created and blogs for the Failing Schools Project.
Joe Clark and his baseball bat. Michelle Rhee and her broom. These images were highlighted in a recent piece by master teacher Patrick Ledesma, who wrote about how compelling media images and narratives iinspire the public to care about public school reform. But the most enduring stories seem to be those of the bullies. They have successfully appropriated the term “sense of urgency” for themselves, casting their critics as laggards or defenders of an indefensible status quo. Ledesma encouraged defenders of teacher professionalism and civility to share their own equally compelling narratives. (more...)
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