Inside the Interlocking Directorate of Corporate Reform

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1. Joe Nathan says:

   February 18, 2013 at 11:21 am

   There are some things left out of this attack on Deborah McGriff. She has a bachelor’s degree in education with a minor in history from Norfolk State University, a master’s degree in education, with a specialization in ready pedagogy from Queens College of the City University of New York, and a doctorate in administration, policy, and urban education from Fordham University. So she has earned degrees at colleges of education.

   She has devoted 4 decades to trying to help improve inner city public schools, first via district public schools, now working with both district and charter public schools. As Mercedes Schneider notes, Dr. McGriff served as superintendent of Detroit Public Schools, deputy superintendent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and assistant superintendent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was a teacher and administrator in the New York City public schools for more than a decade.

   The National Academy of Engineering, part of the National Academies that some people on this list serve has praised, has asked her advice:
   http://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects/24591/engineeringink12-symposium/15871.aspx

   She is one of the most committed, talented, insightful and hard-working people I know in public education.

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   • Linda says:

     February 18, 2013 at 11:41 am

     “She is one of the most committed, talented, insightful and hard-working people I know in public education.”

     Really…more so than the lowly life-long classroom teacher?

     Hey, Joe when they bash all teachers is that an attack, too?

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     • deutsch29 says:

       February 18, 2013 at 11:54 am

       McGriff profits handsomely from the dismantling of traditional public schools and replacing them with charters. Look at the name of her business: NewSchools Venture Fund. She runs a business; she is funded by huge corporate reform money.

       In 2010, New Schools Venture Fund had total assets of $55.5 million dollars:

       NPI Evaluation of NewSchools Venture Fund from Nonprofit Investor
     • KrazyTA says:

       February 19, 2013 at 1:17 am

       deutsch29: you not only made your original case well on your own blog, but the above “defense” of Ms. McGriff reinforces your assertions. Don’t change your tone or your approach to presenting the facts as you see them; it’s obviously making the charteritesprivatizers squirm.

       Linda: I share your rejection of such a dismissive attitude towards teachers. I could adopt a similar stance in response but I won’t sink that low. Most of the teachers and aides I worked for and with would regard that as behaving in a manner unworthy of someone who works in a classroom. We can do better than that. And we do.

       My regards to you both. Please keep posting.

       🙂

2. Mary Pishney says:

   February 18, 2013 at 12:44 pm

   Curious things and people’s allegiance to causes can be demystified by merely checking their affiliations. Don’t need to read the PR about them, or the paeans of
   their “miracles”…their backers will tell all one needs to know to ferret out their possible hidden motivators and goals.

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