You are invited to a discussion between journalist Errol Louis and me at The CUNY J School, 219 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018 on December 3 from 10-11:30 am.
We will discuss the uses and abuses of educational data. We will also talk about such topics as Gov. Cuomo’s recent remarks about breaking up the public school “monopoly”, teacher evaluations, Common Core, and respond to questions.
The event was organized by Professor Andrea Gabor, Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism
Baruch College/CUNY
To reserve a seat, please RSVP to Professor Andrea Gabor at aagabor@aol.com.
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I just read this blog post in Naked Capitalism:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/wisconsin-frontier-school-privatization-will-anyone-notice-looting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29
It might provide some evidence that “breaking the public school monopoly” has already happened in Milwaukee…. and the looting has begun… and neither the media nor the State politicos seem to care.
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Educate Errol because he tends to be one-sided and tends to throw hard-ball questions to advocates of public schools than to those who believe in destroying public schools.
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Know you are out of town. Today, Diane Rehm featured Joel Kline on her show, promoting his book, Lessons of Hope. Book review here implies you, Diane, may be among the “paranoids.” http://www.newsweek.com/joel-kleins-book-education-reform-lessons-hope-281285
Might be a good prep for your discussion at CUNY since it also quotes Kline on the public schools as a govm’t run monopoly.
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I am sorry I will will not be able to atted because I will be teaching at the time. Diane, Errol is a wonderful journalist but he just does not get “what this fuss is all about”! Please enlighten him! I thought I would lose my dinner during his interview with Eva M. He asked her what was the secret to her success so that public schools could learn it– or words to that effect!!!!!
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I just RSVP’d to the event. Looking forward to it.
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Zulma is right. His articles and opinion pieces in the NY Daily News, are definitely pro-charter. He is a cheerleader for Eva Moskowitz; it would be interesting to find out why.
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