weingarten was horrible on "this week"

[Hannah Bell]

Jesus, she's not even trying to push back against the test score nonsense. Somebody stop her. Please.

She goes on these programs with Michelle Rhee and Arne Duncan and allows them to frame the issue as "Bad Teachers Won't Allow Themselves To Be Fired" rather than by pushing back with the kind of critique Valerie Strauss at the Answer Sheet posted...

Using this kind of study to push back against the crap Rhee/Duncan/Obama/Bloomberg/Klein/Gates are pushing would be SO MUCH MORE effective than than the shit Randi mumbles. But then again, as my friend Norm from Ed Notes always says, that would mean Randi would actually WANT to push back against the test score nonsense.

And of course she doesn't. She wants to be feted on shows Like This Week by Arne Duncan. She wants to be kissed by Joel Klein at press conferences after she sells her membership down the river. Oh, and I think she wants to replace Whoopi on The View.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2010/08/weingarten-was-horrible-on-this-week.html


comments call her "the manchurian candidate"

[rpannier]

1. I was hoping someone would have asked Rhee about her contention that some were fired

for having had sex with children.

Because whether she lied or not, Rhee is guilty of a crime

1. If she told the truth, she failed to report it to DCFS and that is a criminal offense

2. If she lied then not only did she commit slander (not criminal) but she falsely filled out a government document which is a crime

[Hannah Bell]

2. i think that lie was debunked a while back, but she's still running with it?

& weingarten didn't say anything?

[dsc]

3. No it wasn't brought up at all

which it really should have been since as noted above, either way Rhee was a sleeze.

[Dinger]

4. The Need Dennis Van Roekel On, But As I Posted Earlier, Here's Why He Isn't

on the Sunday talk show circuit:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-neaprez_28tex.ART.State.Edition1.35e7bf4.html

[txlibdem]

5. I see what you mean

He speaks too much truth for this "education reform" the administration is doing.