http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/08/seeking-to-boost-veep-bid-bloomberg-enters-eduwonk-naming-contest.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:45:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/08/seeking-to-boost-veep-bid-bloomberg-enters-eduwonk-naming-contest.html/comment-page-1#comment-4518 Nelson Smith Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:27:19 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=3503#comment-4518 EduRick - -here's my take: http://www.publiccharters.org/node/431 EduRick – -here’s my take: http://www.publiccharters.org/node/431

]]> http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/08/seeking-to-boost-veep-bid-bloomberg-enters-eduwonk-naming-contest.html/comment-page-1#comment-4501 Robert Pondiscio Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:57:18 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=3503#comment-4501 Fine, thoughtful entries all, but none of them (with the possible exception of JM's "tough-love schools") gets to the heart of the matter: the culture of the schools and the quasi-parental role the adults in the building take with their students. If you want to escape the "New Paternalism" moniker (and personally I don't, since it's accurate and focuses attention where it belongs) you need to come up with a phrase that descibes the defining characteristic that Whitman's book so smartly isolates. Fine, thoughtful entries all, but none of them (with the possible exception of JM’s “tough-love schools”) gets to the heart of the matter: the culture of the schools and the quasi-parental role the adults in the building take with their students. If you want to escape the “New Paternalism” moniker (and personally I don’t, since it’s accurate and focuses attention where it belongs) you need to come up with a phrase that descibes the defining characteristic that Whitman’s book so smartly isolates.

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