A merger could eliminate distinct, valuable choices for parents, said Priscilla Wohlstetter, a USC professor who directs the university's Center on Educational Governance: "I honestly am not certain that we have found the McDonald's recipe for teaching public school students."Keep lookin' for that "McDonald's recipe" for teaching public school kids, Prof.
This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Friday, March 11, 2011
WTF Quote of the Week
Courtesy of USC Professor Priscilla Wohlstetter, who likely sends her own children (if she has any) to the educational equivalent of Ruth's Chris Steak House or McCormick & Schmick's (via an LA "newspaper"):
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