The least accountable among us are those at the top making grand statements (unverified, unchallenged) used to call for the accountable of everyone else. I invite you to read carefully Canada’s Legend-ary TED Talk Lie by Gary Rubinstein to understand how corrosive the “miracle” school narrative is when it is combined with the cult of personality (Canada as […]
More Challenges to Kirp’s “Miracle” Narrative
February 15, 2013 By 4 Comments
While researching and writing two books on key education issues, school choice (Parental Choice?) and poverty’s impact on education (Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.), I discovered the importance of and then committed significant sections of both works to examining the intersection of research on education and the media. The disturbing picture I uncovered was that […]
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