Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » “It makes no sense”: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech. “It makes no sense:” Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech “It makes no sense” is perhaps President Obama’s favorite phrase, using it twice in his 2011 State of the Union speech.
I like the sound of it and what lies behind it—a simple way to point out the obviously illogical things that need to change. That is how I feel about the education section of his speech. The Word - Disintegration - The Colbert Report - 1/18/11.
School Transformation. Education statements. Parental Choice. Teacher Quality. Rebutting Ravitch. Diane Ravitch is a well-known and widely respected historian, author and commentator in the education arena.
Her bio is extraordinarily impressive: a professor of education at NYU, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the author of 11 books and editor of 14 more, Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander from 1991-93 – you get the idea … For many years, she was one of the leading champions of genuine reform of our nation’s broken public school system, supporting No Child Left Behind, for example, and serving on boards of reform-minded organizations such as Education Next, the Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), and the Thomas B.
Fordham Foundation. However, in recent years she has completely disavowed her earlier beliefs and has become one of the most vocal critics of her former colleagues and the reform agenda.