Education: Waiting for Superman and Dissent

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Thanks to Jim Van Pelt, I have a link to a counter viewpoint regarding Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim's new film.

Rick Ayers writes the article What Superman Got Wrong, Point by Point. in The Washington Post. It's an article that you should read before accepting Guggenheim's word as the final one.

I've been a teacher for 24 years. For five years, I taught high school and junior high. I spent a few months in that time frame subbing in various schools in a rural area, but I did my student teaching in suburbia and my full-time work in rural areas.

My husband is still teaching high school, and is in his 25th year of doing so. He's taught in tiny schools and now teaches in an urban school. Urban means something a little different in Iowa. We still have corn in Cedar Rapids. But it's a large school with an increasingly diverse population.

Ayers' article would be what Bryon and I would write if we were to summarize 20 years of "getting ready for school over toothpaste and breakfast" talks.

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