This weekend, an article in my local paper crystallized three things we need to stop doing if we want to transform American public education for the long haul – and three things we should start doing instead.
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In the Middle East & America, Nothing Left to Fear But . . . Freedom Itself
Friday, February 18th, 2011 at 8:16 am
As waves of Arab protesters keep taking to the streets in countries across the Middle East, and as panels of Egyptian experts begin revisiting their country’s constitution in the wake of their country’s 18-day revolution, I want to take the infamous FDR line and give it a new ring: “The only thing we have to fear is . . . freedom itself.”
Categories: Democracy, Organizational Change
Tags: collective bargaining, Democracy, Egypt, FDR, freedom, Hugo Black, Middle East, Supreme Court
Leave a commentThe Wisconsin Teachers Protest: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
As school systems across the state of Wisconsin cancel another day of classes – the result of massive protests in Madison following Governor Scott Walker’s effort to strip educators of the bulk of their collective bargaining rights — I can’t help but think of the old adage that two wrongs don’t make a right. Continue [...]