Ernie: Not in the review were her spoken comments on C-Span in which she made it quite clear that she understands pretty much the whole argument about methods. Not surprising given her background -both as a teacher and as an official of gvt for both Clinton and Bush Sr. No way to know if she read the article but it may be mostly a moot point. Billy ===================================================== In a message dated 3/22/2010 6:24:59 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
She is probably right about the naïveté of current solutions being proposed, though simply turning schools over to professional educators is useless without the reforms discussed earlier. Wonder if she's read that NYT article... E Sent from my iPhone On Mar 22, 2010, at 0:41, [email protected] wrote: > Changes she suggests include curricula that emphasize what students > need to learn over test scores, having professional educators rather > than politicians, business leaders, and philanthropists run the > system, and using charter schools to help students most in need > instead of allowing them to siphon off the best students from > public schools. VERDICT: Anyone interested in education should > definitely read this accessible, riveting book." — Mark Bay, Library > Journal _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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