NY Times declares NEA the winner! “The most retrograde union.”
July 31, 2010
My retired teacher buddy from the Western ‘burbs sends me this note:
Look Fred. We’re the more retrograde teacher union! I believe that means we’re actually a union and not an educational reform group (Illinois might be an exception!)
He’s referring to the editorial in today’s NY Times:
The grant program has focused the country’s attention on school reform and has angered the unions, especially by pushing the states to take student performance into account in teacher evaluations.
The attacks picked up in earnest this week, when a coalition of civil rights groups that included the National Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P. signed onto a statement that attacked not just Race to the Top, but the very idea of using competitive grants to spur reform.
The protest document was quickly embraced by the National Education Association, the more retrograde of the country’s two large teachers’ unions.
The grant program has focused the country’s attention on school reform and has angered the unions, especially by pushing the states to take student performance into account in teacher evaluations.
The attacks picked up in earnest this week, when a coalition of civil rights groups that included the National Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P. signed onto a statement that attacked not just Race to the Top, but the very idea of using competitive grants to spur reform.
The protest document was quickly embraced by the National Education Association, the more retrograde of the country’s two large teachers’ unions.
There’s a challenge to the AFT!
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Hey man, congratulations. I am jealous, I kid you not. Amazing how out of touch and poorly researched the NY Times is on a topic we know about. Makes you wonder whether their other reporting is equally without value.
In my view, the NY Times will always be remembered for Judith Miller and Elizabeth Bumiller’s reporting leading up the the US invasion of Iraq. They each functioned as a mouthpiece for the Bush administration’s lies about WMDs. There has never been an accounting for this, but some of us will neither forget nor forgive.
The editorial about the NEA should be worn as a badge of honor by every NEA member. To be attacked by the Times in this way is sweet.
And it will not cost one life.
Their reporting on Iraq, on the other hand, cost thousands of lives.