The truth behind the get-tough success stories in school reform

My guest is Sabrina Stevens Shupe, a teacher and education advocate who created and blogs for the Failing Schools Project, an effort to reveal what really happens inside chronically failing schools. Take a look. You can find it here, at http://failingschools.wordpress.com/.

By Sabrina Stevens Shupe
Joe Clark and his baseball bat.

Michelle Rhee and her broom.

These images were highlighted in a recent piece by master teacher Patrick Ledesma, who wrote about how compelling media images and narratives iinspire the public to care about public school reform. But the most enduring stories seem to be those of the bullies. They have successfully appropriated the term “sense of urgency” for themselves, casting their critics as laggards or defenders of an indefensible status quo.

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