{"id":1030,"date":"2007-08-01T09:42:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2007-08-01T09:42:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T13:42:21","slug":"sara-mead-we-gotta-walk-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Sara Mead: We gotta walk the walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, former Education Sector staff member Sara Mead wrote an important blog entry as a guest for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonk.com\">Eduwonk<\/a>. She pointed out that teachers unions are not the opponents to a number of reforms supported by Andy Rotherham (Eduwonk), Joe Williams (<a href=\"http:\/\/dfer.org\">Democrats for Education Reform<\/a>), and others such as charter-schools and performance pay. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberal education reformers need to win hearts and minds by engaging with reform-wary lefties and taking their concerns seriously&#8211;not just calling them union hacks or accusing them of not caring about kids. We need to engage in honest self-reflection and be willing to make changes in response to valid critiques from the left. We need to avoid allying with &#8220;friends&#8221; who undermine our credibility as proponents of social justice. We need to make common cause with other progressive advocates for kids&#8211;those working on health care, childcare, and juvenile justice, for instance&#8211;rather than undermining them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see whether others share Mead&#8217;s perspective; I hope so, but I am especially skeptical that Williams will change his standard rhetorical approach. &nbsp;Whether that cripples the organization he directs is an open question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, former Education Sector staff member Sara Mead wrote an important blog entry as a guest for Eduwonk. She pointed out that teachers unions are not the opponents to a number of reforms supported by Andy Rotherham (Eduwonk), Joe Williams (Democrats for Education Reform), and others such as charter-schools and performance pay. Liberal education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-gC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}