Wake Up Call
Will Richardson,
Weblog,
Apr 19, 2012
Will Richardson relays a series of tweets from Chris Lehman (as an image) describing the tactics in play by education privatizers who want to use technology as their Trojan horse. "The strategy has become really clear: villify unions and teachers through policy and public outcry in ways that effectively compromise our voices when we push back, continue to frame education accountability in terms of our ability to compete against the world (as opposed to collaborate with the world) and, finally, promote more and more objective tests..." All true. But I have to say, merely protecting the current role of teachers is ineffective as a response. To protect public education, it is now necessary to define a set of public educational services. Defenders of public education should not simply fall into the role of defending schoolteachers.
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