Experience counts for something

06-30-2011

Guest blog by Randy Ross/Washington Post

During the last 43 years, I have been a principal at one of the largest high schools in New York City, serving students who ive in housing projects and come from all over the world and I’ve been a principal at one of the highest performing high schools in the country, serving students who live in beautiful homes on Long Island’s Gold Coast. I have run programs for pre-schoolers and college graduates, middle-school tweens and kindergarteners. I’ve experienced public, private, parochial, and university school systems. I’ve seen a lot and learned a lot about school reform and what really works … and, listening to the current discourse from politicians, policy makers, and the latest and greatest in educational leadership, I feel we need to stop and take a breath. I knew things had become desperate the day my mayor, New York’s Michael Bloomberg, decided virtually unilaterally to designate Cathie Black, a non-educator with no experience with schools, as public school chancellor. (more...)

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