Gary Rubinstein was one of the first members of Teach for America. He is now one of the leading critics of TFA and corporate reform.
His blog is consistently thoughtful and informative.
A few months ago, Gary decided to write to the top figures in the corporate reform movement.
His letters and the replies he received make for fascinating reading.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
A very modest suggestion from someone who has read all of Gary’s letters to the so-called education reformers.
I know many of the readers of this blog have a a lot of other things to do but I suggest starting with the first, letter#1 and its comments, then gradually making your way up to the latest, #8. Note that some of the comments are critical of Gary’s positions. Speaking strictly for myself: my reaction to the entire series is that when it comes to what the privatizers and charterites are doing “there is no there there.”
Read and judge for yourselves.
A lot of “pro reformers” like to dismiss critics as “status quo” or “angry union people.” If you’re one of these people, PLEASE read Gary’s open letter series from beginning to end.
He is extremely thoughtful and speaks from years of experience as an educator and as a TFA cheerleader (former). I hope his blog goes viral in the education and media and parent community. I hope TFA seriously considers his writing, and I hope every reformer reads it all.
Thanks for making this series more widely known– it is so well done and important for people to see. And as noted in the notes on the Tillson piece, their collective silence is deafening. Rarely is that crowd quiet about anything . . .
What we need is a politician to spend more than five minutes studying and understanding the real issues of real education reform. Too many fall into the Obama/Duncan trap of nostrums that sound good but don’t work. Most people are busy, don’t have kids in public schools, don’t talk to principals or teachers and don’t even realize they are lining up with the ALEC privateers. Isn’t anyone in DC listening at all? Seems not, and meanwhile the damage being done in the states and in the local schools is tangible and real.
Where is our champion inside the beltway? A senator, a rep, someone running for President next time . . ? Someone to make this, true and meaningful and effective education reform, a major part of their political identity. They’d start with an enviable base.