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- 04-20-2011
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Blog by Diane Ravitch/Education Week
[…] In the best of times, education would not be newsworthy, but these are not the best of times. Every day brings bad news about a district closing down public schools or firing teachers or introducing testing for kindergartners. One hardly knows how to keep up with the accumulating attacks on teachers, principals, administrators, and public education. The biggest recent news was the decision by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to replace city schools Chancellor Cathleen Black on April 7. She served only three months, which set a record for the shortest tenure ever in that position. The mayor immediately announced the selection of his trusted deputy mayor, Dennis Walcott, as chancellor. On the same day, New York State Commissioner of Education David Steiner announced his resignation after less than two years on the job. I wrote about these events in a blog for The New York Review of Books, so I won't give the full history here. There is a rich irony in these proceedings. (more...)
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