Oxen Update

Over at the Columbia Journalism Review Daniel Luzer takes on Dana Goldstein’s recent TAP story on Randi Weingarten.   Goldstein responds here.  Luzer’s a little too harsh on Goldstein’s article, but he does point up a real risk for reformers:  Namely that all this happy talk about how everyone is on board with reform now could lead to a superficial sense that things are changing or even some cosmetic changes when, in fact, not much actually changes for students in schools.  That, it seems, is a huge risk given both the history of this issue and the politics today, where there is a growing confluence of interests around appearing to reform without actually goring any oxen.