Ravitch says:" After reading the names of eminent scholars who signed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiff of Vergara v California, I sent a“say it ain’t so” emailto a couple of them... the responses that I received, reinforced my fears about the continuing corporate reform, anti-teacher public relations campaign.As Jal Mehta explains, teaching is treated like a “semi-profession.” It’s bad enough that school reformers seek to silence our hard-earned insights, as they move us around like chess pieces, in the hopes that they can someday-over-the-rainbow devise a system of rewards and punishments that will transform our schools . It is sadder still that eminent jurists would agree that the non-educators in the Billionaires Boys Club have virtually no burden of proving that their hunches about school improvement would cause more good than harm to poor children of color."
At dianeravitch.net
