Guest Blog: Two Paths to the Brave New World of School Reform

February 9th, 2010 admin

Anthony Cody is our guest blogger today. A veteran teacher with over 18 years experience in the classroom, he’s skeptical of the free-market approach to education reform. — Betty Ray, Edutopia Community Manager With the reauthorization of NCLB on the horizon, it is time to take a look into our future to see where current trends are taking us. As I look ahead, I have two visions that diverge rather sharply from each other. Guest blogger Anthony Cody predicts that the free-market approach to education reform will collapse, and take a lot of great people with it. educational reform, charter schools, Waiting for Superman


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