• Many Pushing to Change Public Schools Attended Private Ones – NYTimes.com

  tags: educational reform

  • Today, the consensus is that there is little difference between President Obama and former President George W. Bush when it comes to education policy. Nor is it easy to distinguish differences between the secretary of education under Mr. Bush, Margaret Spellings, and the current secretary, Arne Duncan.

    Those who call themselves reformers are a diverse group, men and women of every political stripe and of every race and ethnicity.

    But there is one thing that characterizes a surprisingly large number of the people who are transforming public schools: they attended private schools.

    Which raises the question: Does a private school background give them a much-needed distance and fresh perspective to better critique and remake traditional public schools? Does it make them distrust public schools — or even worse — poison their perception of them? Or does it make any difference?

• Many Pushing to Change Public Schools Attended Private Ones – NYTimes.com

  • Today, the consensus is that there is little difference between President Obama and former President George W. Bush when it comes to education policy. Nor is it easy to distinguish differences between the secretary of education under Mr. Bush, Margaret Spellings, and the current secretary, Arne Duncan.

    Those who call themselves reformers are a diverse group, men and women of every political stripe and of every race and ethnicity.

    But there is one thing that characterizes a surprisingly large number of the people who are transforming public schools: they attended private schools.

    Which raises the question: Does a private school background give them a much-needed distance and fresh perspective to better critique and remake traditional public schools? Does it make them distrust public schools — or even worse — poison their perception of them? Or does it make any difference?

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