{"id":2692,"date":"2010-11-12T05:22:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2010-11-11T23:27:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T03:27:34","slug":"the-eulogies-of-joel-klein-are-a-bit-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"The eulogies of Joel Klein are a bit premature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something about the commentary surrounding Joel Klein&#39;s chancellorship of NYC schools struck me as closer to a memorial than a &quot;thank you for the hard work&quot; type of message anyone could expect, especially the overblown claims of dramatic improvements in achievement during the Klein Era. Folks, Klein is quite alive, so you don&#39;t need to adopt the &quot;speak no ill of the dead&quot; ethic. In the past day I&#39;d been half-tempted to write a Mad Libs-style generic description of a big-city superintendent who supposedly brings miracles, leaves for a new job, and only later are the shortcomings of the supposed miracle revealed. (Whether you&#39;d insert the particulars of Rod Paige&#39;s reign in Houston, Klein&#39;s in New York City, or others would be your choice.) A more sober description and perspective is offered by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2010\/nov\/11\/new-yorks-new-schools-czar\/\">Diane Ravitch in the New York Review of Books<\/a>, and that&#39;ll suffice for now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something about the commentary surrounding Joel Klein&#39;s chancellorship of NYC schools struck me as closer to a memorial than a &quot;thank you for the hard work&quot; type of message anyone could expect, especially the overblown claims of dramatic improvements in achievement during the Klein Era. Folks, Klein is quite alive, so you don&#39;t need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-Hq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}