Officials in a Connecticut school district decided to take down a mural depicting Joe Paterno. (TheDay)
A new faction seeks to upend the electoral status quo in the teachers union. (GothamSchools)
Space tensions elevated between a struggling elementary school and a charter school. (Daily News)
A program provides physics teachers with long sought-after professional development. (GothamSchools)
Bloomberg traveled to the Queens Botanical Garden to tout a summer jobs program. (Times-Ledger)
One way to slow spending on pre-K special education spending is to crack down on fraud. (Times)
Top British education officials say privacy isn’t an excuse to withhold teacher performance data. (BBC)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=711858292 Paul Rubin
Guys, you’re promoting the article about British education officials as being news or somehow interesting. By governors, they’re sort of talking about district level personnel. If the principals are getting the data here, you can bet so are their bosses. Move along.
I don’t know why that school district took down the Paterno mural. Let’s face it, Joe Paterno is emblematic of our times – an overpaid, corrupt, dishonest, hypocritical member of the elite who lied and covered up horrific crimes in order to save himself and his cronies – EVEN the one crony perpetrating the horrific crimes. And then, as the investigation widens and he knows the end of the cover-up is coming, he renegotiates his Penn State contract to ensure he and his family rake in millions and receive side benefits from the university no matter how the criminal investigation turns out
Far from erasing the Paterno mural, we ought to celebrate it for what it is – a symbol of how corrupt the elite members of our society are and yet how, in the end, unaccountable they are too.
From the LIBOR fixing to the latest banking scandals at HSBC for money laundering and JP Morgan Chase for lying over $7 billion in losses in risky trades to Treasury Secretary Geithner lying about the actions he didn’t take during the LIBOR fixing scandal to Mitt Romney lying about his Bain tenure, there are plenty of examples just in the past week of how corrupt and unaccountable the elite members of our Empire are.
But Joe Paterno really ought to be held up as a model of our times. Rather than hide this kind of thing from students, we ought to let them confront it.
Let’s be honest about the rot that lies at the core of our culture and society.
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