Education Week - February 19, 2014 - 34

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What Is School Reform?
In the Commentary "When Is School
Reform Not Enough?," Ann Evans de
Bernard criticizes the recent direction of
education reform. "The current 'reform
movement,'" de Bernard writes in the
Feb. 3, 2014, essay, "does nothing more than
highlight purported deficits and use them to
justify paying already-wealthy people to fix
the problems that they themselves identified
and named."
The piece sparked a lively online
discussion. Some commenters agreed with
de Bernard's grim assessment of education
reform, while others asserted the absence of
a better alternative.
www.edweek.org/go/debernard.
Weren't "educators" the ones responsible for our
The criticisms of the corporate school reforms are
accurate. Unfortunately, the suggested alternatives
are vague blather-teachers should "know and accept"
students, reformers should "get to know" the schools?
Well, then what?
LABOR LAWYER
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schools prior to the reform movement?... Prior to
NCLB and standards reform, there was no plan-
anywhere-as to what to teach or when to teach it,
save textbook publishers and local districts, most of
which had no plan either.
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You are absolutely right that the pieces that they
are calling reform won't make any difference. In
order to bring our low achievers into society, we must
deal with the underlying conditions that caused the
problems in the first place.
JAMES C. WILSON, ED.
Complaints about the external pressures to
reform schools, this late in the game, leave me
cold. ...The question clearly painted on the side of
the elephant in the room is, if the educators had
the answers, then why wait this long to speak up?
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Sound wisdom! Arne Duncan should be required
to engage in the frontline "inform" you suggest
so that his destructive initiatives can undergo
"reform."
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