| " Bryant writes that TIME has lost prestige and readers and now recycles rightwing cliches. On Salon, Bryant says that TIME has become an "embarrassing Internet troll," with its cover story slamming teachers as the latest example of supermarket sensationalism. TIME put Michelle Rhee on its cover un 2008 and implied that she knew how to transform America's schools. She fired hundreds of teachers and principals without transforming DC schools. And now we have another sensational anti-teacher cover, this one privileging tech millionaires as knowing how to fix teaching. Bryant writes: "Astonishingly, since 2008, Time has learned nothing about the problems besieging teachers and their schools and the much-ballyhooed promises of "education reform.-- "The article (behind a pay wall) is written by a journalist who seems brand-new to the scene"Wouldn't it be appropriate to interview teachers! |
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