How to Build a Progressive Education Movement

Source: edweek.org Posted By: Melody D...4065 days ago

You've got to hand it to Michelle Rhee: She succeeded in building a movement around reforming the education system based on standardized tests. While those of us who are proponents of progressive education were busy speaking to ourselves, sending our kids to alternative schools, and basking in our anonymity, the "testers" (let's not call them "reformers") built ties to business and the political class, catapulting their movement into the mainstream and now into the dominant educational paradigm.....

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