“…they snuck out the back door.”
Youtube video of James Liebman, NY schools accountability guy.
Only Rotherham…
Only Andy Rotherham would have the nerve to blame the critics (the NEA?) of NCLB for the failure of the Bush administration to fund health insurance for children.
It’s hard not to miss that the mainline establishment education organizations have put a lot more effort into taking the teeth out of No Child Left Behind than overriding the President’s opposition to expanding access to health care for children via SCHIP.
Kozol and the NEA. Attacked and mocked. But who’s laughing now?
Jonathan Kozol speaking at the University of Chicago while on his hunger strike earlier this year.
There are two items I ran across on the internet this morning that are connected and worth noting.
One is an article from EdWeek on how the NEA is to blame for the failure to reauthorize NCLB.
The other is a post on Chicago’s PURE blog site about Jonathan Kozol and the media attention he received by his hunger strike. It resulted in a meeting with NCLB sponsor Ted Kennedy. The report by PURE claims the meeting has caused Kennedy to reassess some of his views on the bill.
Well, well.
Considering how some anti-NCLB voices went after the NEA this year for selling out their members, the EdWeek piece is interesting. Of course, some of these folks wouldn’t be satisfied unless the were no federal education law at all. But the fact remains that the odds makers now question whether we will ever have a reauthorization of the existing law and the NEA leadership ought to get a share of the credit for that.
To those like Rotherham who wrote all those mocking, nasty articles and posts about the courageous and principled Kozol: Who’s laughing now?
There’s a gun to my head.
hi prea prez,
i’ve pulled you into an online version of the chain letter - read here for more:
Here’s the deal:
- Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
- Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
- Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Dear Eduwonkette.
On the one hand, I am honored that you tagged me and list me on your blogroll. I really like your blog and the way you make complex education issues a whole lot easier to understand (although I’m still struggling with the value added model thing you ran).
On the other hand, I don’t love these tag memes. But just because it’s you:
1. I never voted in an election until I was 37 years old. It was for Harold Washington for Mayor of Chicago. Even though I vote in every election now, those were the only two times I voted and felt no regret.
2. The most famous person I ever met was Muhammad Ali. We shook hands at an anti-Vietnam War demo in LA. I met Yoko Ono at an anti-Iraq War demo in NY. She shook my grand daughter’s hand. Anti-war demos are good places to meet famous people.
3. I compulsively read the NY Times obituaries and the wedding announcements in the Sunday Times.
4. I can name all the starting players on the 1957 Dodgers, but none on the 2007.
5. I will watch any movie directed by Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee or Orson Welles.
6. I like teaching today more than any time I have done it (twenty-five years).
7. I consider myself a foodie, but nothing is as satisfying as spaghetti and meat sauce, garlic bread and a salad.
To those I tagged, forgive me:
