Here is a correction I just received.
Please read the article, especially the correction at the end, which says:
Correction: We initially reported that Robert J. Hall, publisher at Interstate General Media, parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com, was a PennCAN funder. The PennCAN funder appears to be a different Robert. J. Hall. We apologize for the error.
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Robert J. Hall needs a name like Mercedes K. Schneider.
No chance for confusion. 🙂
You are correct. But it’s not just the name…
There was, is, and always will be, just one KrazyMathLady. Like a famed superhero of then and now, you may have different alter egos [including M.Schneider & deutsch29] but you will never be confused with others bearing your moniker because of your powers.
That you always use for good.
🙂
I may be wrong, but on Ebay there is a colorful costume of indestructible tights with a cape up for sale. Although I personally don’t think you need them because your powers are not so much about stopping bullets and speeding trains as they are about “unclouding men’s minds.”
A reverse of that famed radio crimefighter of yesteryear, the Shadow, who had the “power to cloud men’s minds.”
But different times require different powers. And when did the Shadow ever draw the sputtering rage of gangs of cagebusting edufrauds by setting huge numbers of people straight about twisted numbers, truncated graphs, and superficial stats?
Now there’s a power worth having!
🙂
““unclouding men’s minds.””
Sexist! Ha Ha
This correction should not be taken to mean that philly.com is not deeply involved with corporate education reform.
In it’s edition this past Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer had an editorial saying the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers must make major wage and benefit concessions
Teachers must do more than talk the talk
http://tinyurl.com/kvsbmfy
In the same edition of the Inquirer was an article called An Academic Turnaround
http://tinyurl.com/m4o46w4
The article begins:
“Seeking a respite from the relentless drumbeat of dire city school news, I headed to far South Philadelphia, in the shadow of the stadiums.
Thomas was a lousy neighborhood school, an institution of last resort, when Mastery Charter took control for its first turnaround project eight years ago. Today, Thomas is a gem, ranked the state’s fourth-best charter high school, with a waiting list of nearly a thousand students.”
In the comments (which are no longer published) teachers who were at the school before it was taken over by Mastery Charter took issue with the characterization of the previous school as “lousy”.
What the article did not disclose (and the Inquirer never discloses), is that on the board of Mastery Charter, a major charter company in Philadelphia, is Brook Lenfest.
http://www.brookjlenfestfoundation.org/
Brook Lenfest is the son of businessman and philanthropist H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, a partner in in Interstate General Media Inc., owner of The Inquirer, the Daily News, and philly.com.
Brook Lenfest was in the news in March in another matter related to his business dealings. (In this article it was disclosed that he is the son of H.F. Lenfest.)
http://tinyurl.com/manjngf
The Board of Mastery Charter is listed here:
http://www.masterycharter.org/about/our-board-12.html
It may not be the same person but it’s telling how fast they let the writer know they had the wrong person…they really want to distance themselves from this whole reformer/school destroying mess.