Via Truthout: Let's Not "Reform" Public Education
Adam Bessie, Truthout: "The word 'reform' itself is a linguistic trap. At face, it assumes that something is profoundly wrong with our public schools, a commonplace belief in the wake of 'Waiting for Superman.' Further, it suggests a way to fix this wrongness - discipline.... Who can disagree with reform? Who can be against helping children stuck in a bad school system? What the corporate reformers have done well is to essentially trademark 'reform,' branding in the public mind their diagnosis of what's wrong with schools and the harsh, chemotherapeutic remedy."
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