By John Thompson. The front page New York Times article, by veteran reporter Motoko Rich has unleashed quite a backlash. Its title, “Oakland District at Heart of Drive to Transform Urban Education,” points to the reason why the high-poverty district’s ill-conceived corporate reform campaign …
By John Thompson. The New York Times’s “Oakland District at Heart of Drive to Transform Urban Education,” by veteran reporter Motoko Rich, clearly explains why the discord brought to Oakland illustrates why corporate reform is a threat to urban schools across the nation. The Broad Academy has …