Screwing Up The Schools

Horsefeathers ^ | 3-23-2006 | Rita Kramer

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Whether it’s running a war or running a school system, look out for leaders who don’t know what they’re doing. New York’s Mayor Bloomberg was voted into office promising to make a success of the city’s wildly unworkable schools. He knew nothing about education, shopped around for advice, and made an unfortunate choice in his schools chancellor. Joel Klein, a successful attorney for government and big business, knew nothing about education either. Both men know about management, and in their naivete about teaching and learning, fell prey to the proponents of the very ideology that has corrupted the system they set out to reform.