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Trust and skepticism in public schools
- 09-16-2010
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Guest blog by Deborah Meier/Washington Post
“You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time,” was my mother’s answer to disappointing election result. Family lore also reminded me that even though all my classmates and neighbors were voting for Alf Landon (in 1936), and all the newspapers were anti-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR won handily. “Everyone” is often a skewed sample. This rosy view was confirmed this morning by the news that D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, the media-darling and heroine of all the major foundations and hedge-funders, lost handily—by way of Mayor Adrian Fenty’s defeat in Washington D.C.’s Democratic primary. (more…)
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