History of IDEA
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What ‘Superman’ got wrong, point by point
- 09-27-2010
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Guest blog by Rick Ayers/Washington Post
While the education film Waiting For Superman has moving profiles of students struggling to succeed under difficult circumstances, it puts forward a sometimes misleading and other times dishonest account of the roots of the problem and possible solutions. The amped-up rhetoric of crisis and failure everywhere is being used to promote business-model reforms that are destabilizing even in successful schools and districts. A panel at NBC’s Education Nation Summit, taking place in New York today and tomorrow, was originally titled "Does Education Need a Katrina?" Such disgraceful rhetoric undermines reasonable debate. Let’s examine these issues, one by one: (more…)
Also: Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Good
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