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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Trends: Lost In Accounts Of Worst-Case Examples--->The Majority Of Public Schools Work Well And Are Improving The school reform movement is in full force in America. Increasing accountability---for educators and their students---has been the trend for the past couple of decades. On the whole, Americans have a perception that our school system is broken, even though most are pleased with the performance of their local public schools. Movies such as "Waiting For Superman" project an over-simplified picture of American public schools, painted in broad strokes, as inefficient bastions of entrenched interests such as teacher's unions. They portray the worst of the worst as if those examples are representative of our entire system. There are MANY great public schools in America. In fact, I would propose that MOST public schools in America are either good...or improving. There are certainly exceptions. Interestingly, many of the most vociferous opponents of public schools were themselves educated in private schools. The article below explores that aspect of this trend. A few quotes: "Those who call themselves reformers are a diverse group, men and women of every political stripe and of every race and ethnicity. But there is one thing that characterizes a surprisingly large number of the people who are transforming public schools: they attended private schools. Which raises the question: Does a private school background give them a much-needed distance and fresh perspective to better critique and remake traditional public schools? Does it make them distrust public schools — or even worse — poison their perception of them? Or does it make any difference?" Click the image below for the complete article from The New York Times
Posted at 11:51 AM Keywords: Accountability , School Reform , Public v Private Schools 0 Comments |
