Andy Rotherham writes a regular column on education for TIME.
This is his take on the election.
He supports the testing, accountability, charter agenda that Beltway insiders refer to as “the bipartisan consensus.”
I think of it as the Democratic embrace of the Republican agenda. Andy worked in the Clinton White House during the time of “triangulation” and the “third way,” when Democrats learned to love high-stakes testing and charters.
This path, I believe, now converges with the privatization movement, ALEC, the Waltons and the Koch brothers.
Are there Democrats who still remember the traditional Democratic agenda of equity and professionalism?
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I respond to Delaware Secretary of Education letter about the new system tying teachers’ evaluations to student test scores: http://wp.me/pwqHK-2Ej
Warning, it’s a bit snarky.
That’s a good one, John. The word weasly truly fits your Sec of Ed.
Memory can be selective.
and deliberate
No.
“Are there Democrats who still remember the traditional Democratic agenda of equity and professionalism?”
If there are, they are not in this White House:
http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2012/11/obamas-education-policies-will-alienate.html
Obama is playing avery dangerous game: he is giving his base a separate and unequal system of schools. He is advocating a system of schools for his base that suburban voters would never accept.
But the push-back has already started, and it’s going to get worse. Someone better wake up the Democrats quickly and tell them they are running the risk of alienating the very people who put them into office.
Well, Bill Gates and Co. appear to have won the charter school fight in Washington State (which had held out for none of them for 20 years). $11M can buy an election but it STILL isn’t decided as of this date.
Big disappointment in the anemic efforts of the Washington Teachers Association who, if you look at how close the election is, 51%-49%, had the chance to win it.
Are there Democrats who still remember the traditional Democratic agenda of equity and professionalism?
I remember and I sorely miss it. I wonder if it will ever return or if the Dems are just going to keep aping the Republicans.
I continue to wonder which direction this administration would have gone had Obama not hired his buddy, and instead given the spot to Linda Darling-Hammond – she was, after all, on his transition team.
I believe that the fix was in from the start. Privatization required long-range planning. The plan to dismantle public education is too complex and too carefully coordinated across federal and state government and the private sector.
That is why LDH could never have been a serious candidate.
Andy Rotherham says the election compromised ed reform. The truth is the people have made clear their opposition to much of privatization and that things will gut worse unless changes are made in more than rhetoric form the right wing of both parties..