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Quotable & notable

3.28.2011

?Unfortunately, it is a characteristic of reform movements?for its participants to feel they are on the edge of history, solving with new ideas and new tools the problems that flummoxed everyone before..'' *

-Mike Rose, faculty member of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

"D?j? vu all over again: A lesson from the history of school reform," The Washington Post

10

The number of times that Gideon Stein, president of Future is Now Schools (formerly Green Dot America), has had dinner or drinks with Randi Weingarten in the last 8 months

"A union skeptic, converted by Steve Barr, befriends the UFT," Gotham Schools

* This quote does not necessarily represent the views of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Tags: Randi Weingarten United Federation of Teachers
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