Thank you Carol Corbett Burris: Neither stereotypes nor disingenuous answers will reduce the building opposition to Race to the Top reform. The concerns of parents are neither small nor small-minded. Parents do not much care what the Business Roundtable wants their future workers to be. They love their children who only get to be third graders once. They care about their kids’ emotional, as well as academic, well being. They do not define their kids by test scores, nor are test scores their only measure of school quality. They are refusing to buy the big lie that their neighborhood schools and teachers are defective. This comes as a surprise to reformers who believed that suburban parents would rise up and turn against their schools. Perhaps, in part, the problem is one of vanity. But it is not the vanity of suburban moms who think too highly of their children. Instead, the problem may be the vanity of those who refuse to admit that they may not be the civil rights heroes they believe themselves to be.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:12:37 +0000
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