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Jon Stewart hosts Ravitch, rips critics of teachers in newest, funniest show
- 03-04-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Jon Stewart, hosting education historian Diane Ravitch, outdid himself last night on "The Daily Show" with a scathing and hysterically funny (and sad) new attack on the hypocrisy underlying the assault on public school teachers. Stewart was ruthless as he poked serious fun at the hypocritical attacks on “the greed” of public school teachers by critics on Fox News who insist on sacrifices from the public sector but not the private sector. He showed film clips (see below) in which Republican commentators first moaned that folks in the financial sector earning $250,000 a year are practically poor but teachers earning $50,000 a year, with benefits, are overpaid. (more...)
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