Read EduShyster as she takes you to the Lake Wobegon Academy of Excellence and Innovation.
That is a school where every single student is excellent!
Why?
Because every single teacher is excellent!
No more Bad teachers. No more “good” teachers.
And that is why every student is excellent!
No more median. At last, a school where No Child Is Left Behind, where every child Races to the Top and wins!
Don’t just take EduShyster’s word for it.
President Obama says it can be done. Secretary Duncan agrees. So does Jeb Bush. And Bill and Melinda Gates. And Eli Broad. And the Walton Family.
And they know, right?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thank you EduShyster. That video was very revealing. Gates has been quoted as saying one teacher is good for a million students. Oh Really Bill. Is this like your Windows 7 that thinks it know more about what I want to do than I do? This is your real personality isn’t it? It is their “Brave New World” out there. Max profit is what this is all about. How do you pay more within a limited budget? Doesn’t work even for their “Excellent Teachers.” Why create conflict between the excellent and lousy teachers and baby sitters? How can an online teacher with thousands give individual care when they cannot even touch them? How stupid are we if the public goes for this foolishness?
Thank You once more for the article and especially the video.
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Wow… it has to be seen to be disbelieved…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7ZnrEQqxFvY#at=90
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Well, this post drove a lot of traffic to the
YOUTUBE video, and prompted countless
scathing critical comments from the likes of
Leonie Haimson and others (posted underneath).
Well, guess what? Opportunity Culture just
scrubbed all those COMMENT’s, and disabled
any future commenting.
Here’s the video—which unlike before, now has no comments,
and now bars any future comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7ZnrEQqxFvY#at=90
So much for a free and open discussion of
Opportunity Culture’s approach to education.
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Ten dollars to anyone who can completely watch and finish watching the video, yes the sound has to be on loud enough to hear it, without puking!!
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You win, Duane.
I tried, I really did, but was overcome by a wave of nausea.
I guess it’s OK, though, since I must be a Bad Teacher, and should therefore just accept my destiny as Soylent Green.
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I couldn’t even get through 2 minutes. I was physically ill. I particularly love the quoting of a bunch of facts and statistics with no sources cited. My debaters would eat them alive!
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FYI: that was only part 1 of the video fun. To enhance your excellent experience be sure to watch part 2! http://opportunityculture.org/multimedia/extending-the-reach-video-part-2/
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As it’s said: “Thanks, but no thanks!”
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Were these “excellent teachers” hatched from pods? Where did they come from? How did they get to be excellent teachers? The bottom line is that teacher quality is, in great part, dependent on the preparation programs from which the teachers graduated.
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Before we worry about every teacher being “excellent,” can we please get just one excellent edu-philantropist/reformer?
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