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Smart List: 60 People Shaping the Future of K-12 Education
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
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.
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