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In The News

Can’t say I’m a regular Oprah viewer but seeing James Wilcox get some props on the show could turn me into one….You can watch the entire segment from last week (in pieces) here.

Also, don’t miss Joel Klein on Waiting for Superman.

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3 Responses to “In The News”

  1. phillipmarlowe Says:
    September 27th, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    If you watched the two Oprah infomercials for Waiting for Superman this week, you might have noticed the following stats. If not, I’ll lay them out for you.
    Total number of teachers on the panel: 0
    Total number of public school parents on the panel: 0
    Total number of billionaires on the panel: 3
    Total number of billions of the panelists: 60
    Total years of teaching experience of all the “experts”: 2

    http://www.accountabletalk.com/2010/09/stats-on-oprah-informercials.html

  2. phillipmarlowe Says:
    September 28th, 2010 at 10:07 am

    Waiting For Superman

    In the film, there is one animation scene that shows kids heads being filled with knowledge by a teacher while the narrator says: “It should be simple, a teacher in a schoolhouse filling their students with knowledge and sending them on their way, but we’ve made it complicated.”

    Complicated.

  3. Billy Bob Says:
    October 1st, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    I guess the pro-charter people on here convienently forgot to mention this. WOw–it cost a cool $1 million to fill 900 slots? So much for a lottery.

    Just think what the million could have done actually educating kids.

    WHere is the outrage whem there was outrage about the unions spending a million in the DC election?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/columnists/gonzalez/index.html#ixzz117AJoTJt

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