EduShyster wants to help promote Rick Hess’ new book, Cage Busters….or does she?
It is a ritual. Every author of a public policy book must launch it with a panel discussion at a think tank in DC. It’s a way of showcasing the book and branding it
Hess runs the education program at the American Enterprise Institute so he chose his panel. Hess branded his book by offering the views of people he sees as cage busters: Michelle Rhee, Kaya Henderson, Deborah Gist, Chris Barbic, and a little known principal from New York.
EduShyster deconstructs the cage busting concept. In the end, we are left to wonder who is in the cage, why it needs busting, and where these cage busters are taking the children and teachers of this nation.
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For me, cage busting is my son taking most of his classes outside of his public high school building.
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And how does that definition fit with EduShyster’s analysis?
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Just another interpretation of cage busting.
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Perhaps teaching’s tongue is caged in his cheek. 😉
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Garfield High in Seattle is cage busting, except I’m sure Hess didn’t mean for it to work in favor of common sense and decency.
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I posted this comment a year ago, when Rick Hess brought up “cage busting.”
Mr. Hess:
For example, when John Deasy, now superintendent of Los Angeles, was superintendent of Prince George’s County, Maryland, he transferred hundreds of teachers to new schools.
Mr. Hess is so gullible. If a friend tells him something, he believes it. That must explain his defense of Michelle Rhee lying about her “miracle” while teacher in Baltimore.
Teachers would have been moved to new schools in PGCPS even if “Dr.” John Deasy wasn’t superintendent. The schools had been planned for years before he came onboard.
It is like giving credit to President Obama for bailing out the banks when the plan and its approval came from President Bush.
Will similar fiction be in your book, Mr. Hess?
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2012/02/cage-busting_leadership.html
Deasy rolled Hess.
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“Cage busting”. More edu-speak. None of these reformers have ever been in a proverbial cage. They have been free as birds to control and ultimately destroy the public school system. Their policies “cage” true learning and excellent teaching.
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Maybe they’re just building a different cage, with a different guard at the opening.
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I’d like to see some of these reformers and rip-off artists in an 6×8 cage, double bunk.
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Here are some cage busters: The teachers at Garfield High, the students in Providence, Rhode Island, who are doing a zombie protest today in front of the Rhode Island Department of Education; the students in Portland, Oregon, who are opting out; the local school boards of Texas who denounced high stakes testing; former Texas Commissioner Robert Scott of Texas, who called the testing regime a “vampire”; Superintendent Heath Morrison of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, who criticized the testing cage; ditto Superintendent Joshua Starr of Montgomery County, Maryland; NY principal Carol Burris, who has led the fight against the state’s education evaluation system. Many many more. All heroes. And cage busters.
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