The Attack on Public Education & the "Fight Back": Bill Ayers, 1 of 2
Channel: Paul Baker
Date: 15/09/2011

We face an astonishing moment in schools. Public schools are under attack in ways unthinkable. Standardized testing lowers our imaginative horizons, and perhaps fatally. The New Yorker ran a puff piece about Arne Duncan, which was revealing, and the author argues two positions in ed reform. One is the radical reformer who says, crush the unions, use market based solutions. The other pole was those who defend the status quo without question (all teacher colleges are great, etc.). We are sure to be defeated, if we let them frame the issue that way. Framing is everything.  Why are we not framing the issues? The thunder from above tells us what the horizons of the imagination can be.