Month: August 2014

• Help!, Vote for Post: Who Should be Responded to First!?

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  August 14, 2014

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  Wisdom

  It’s coming in from all directions this week. So I need your help to decide who should be responded to first on Cloaking Inequity. Here are the candidates: There is an attack today from RedefinED on vouchers insinuating that I am a union shill and lack peer-review in my work. The pro-choice and charter folks are trumpeting that KIPP…

  

• Breaking News: @MichelleRhee (Johnson) Continues to Spread Fertilizer

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  August 13, 2014

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  Breaking News

  The Huffington Posts reports that Michelle Rhee Prepares To Leave CEO Job At StudentsFirst, Group She Founded. Is there a more polarizing figure for critics or uniting for supporters of education “reformers”? In today’s Breaking News comic above, Michelle Rhee (Johnson) discusses her career change. For all of the Breaking News comings click here. For all of…

  

• A Message to Democrats (and Republicans too) about Education Reform

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  August 12, 2014

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  Accountability, Charter Schools, Community-Based Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, KIPP, Teacher Quality, Vouchers

  Because I am California bound, I had to cancel an engagement to speak with the Sun City Democrats about education reform. To make up for it, I taped a message to them and answered their questions. I pasted the YouTube response below. Here are the questions: We read, in the Austin Statesman, that one of the…