Charlie Rose Lobotomized by "education" Guest
Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ's charter school recently got an A -- kudos!) was on Charlie Rose on the 2nd, saying smart, AWESOME things that drove this blogger (Gary Stager, http://www.stager.org/bio.html) nuts:
Last evening, January 2nd, my favorite journalist/talk show host once again demonstrated how his IQ can drop in half when the subject being discussed is education. Rich guy, and probably well-meaning, philanthropist Geoffrey Canada saluted the Bloomberg/Klein cabal, touted merit pay, bashed teacher unions, demanded a longer school day, pretended that the multi-billion dollar disaster of American standardized tests compared our kids to foreign students, supported KIPP Academy and even went so far as to cite the Houston public schools under Rod Paige's leadership despite the documented evidence that the "Houston Miracle" that spawned NCLB was a complete fraud for which only the whistleblower was punished. Mr. Canada also took umbrage with the phony baloney issue of "social promotion" and wishes NCLB were fully-funded.
The 34-minute video of the interview is posted at the bottom of the blog post (http://www.stager.org/blog/2008/01/charlie-rose-lobotomized-by-education.html) -- a must-watch -- after the list of people Stager suggested would be better people for Rose to interview. Jonthan Kozol? Check. Diane Ravitch? Check. Stager himself? Check. But how did he miss Linda Darling-Hammond?! LOL!
Keep speaking the truth Geoff!
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