Five Best Blogs: Brought To You By "Junior Skeptic" Magazine

Hess rounds up smattering of political oppo to Common Core from around the states ow.ly/cZepk#5bb

Why Johnny Can't Learn: Texas Monthly August 2012ow.ly/cZeiQ @gothamschools #5bb

What the [School Reform Movement] Can Learn from Gay Rights - The Atlantic Wire ow.ly/cYCQd Step 1: Make them fear you.

Some rail against new teacher prep assessments, but Stanford's LDH says edTPA is better than test-based ratings ow.ly/cZdO5 #5bb

How lobbyists became Congress’s leading policy wonks ow.ly/cZdCb Calling @PennHillGroup #5bb

Comments

[CarolineSF]

Make them fear you? The so-called ed "reform" movement is already waging a massive hate campaign against teachers and public schools, and doing collateral damage to public school children and their families. What could it do more of to instill yet more fear?

The original article linked to is about what gun control can learn from gay rights. But both those movements are underdogs facing powerful and amply resourced foes. The so-called education "reformers" are the ones with the power and the ample resources, and their targets are the underdogs.

[Sarah]

I like how one of the articles asserts I’m supposed to feel pity for congress when the standstill they’re at is a product of their own doing. If they wanted to make their jobs less stressful, they could simply, you know... stop listening to lobbyists. They could take capitalism back out of politics, and listen to people first. Also, pigs could fly, and Elvis could turn up in Nevada for his reunion tour.

[Ruby Serra]

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