Shanker Supports Free Cell Phone Plan
I don't know if Tough Liberal author Richard Kahlenberg read last week's blog post headlined "Shanker Seance" (although there's a pretty big clue here), but it looks like he's giving me what I asked for.
The latest op-ed from the afterlife concerns New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's consideration of a plan to reward high-performing public school students with free cell phones and airtime.Kahlenberg Shanker thinks would have thought it is a good idea:
"Shanker argued that the incentive structure in American public education was terribly biased in favor of well-off kids and against poorer ones.... While Shanker wished that students would be motivated by a love of learning alone, he knew that was unrealistic. 'I once hoped for such a world,' he said."
Uh, isn't Shanker in such a world now?
UPDATE: Oops. Left out the link to Kahlenberg's column. Sorry.
The latest op-ed from the afterlife concerns New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's consideration of a plan to reward high-performing public school students with free cell phones and airtime.
"Shanker argued that the incentive structure in American public education was terribly biased in favor of well-off kids and against poorer ones.... While Shanker wished that students would be motivated by a love of learning alone, he knew that was unrealistic. 'I once hoped for such a world,' he said."
Uh, isn't Shanker in such a world now?
UPDATE: Oops. Left out the link to Kahlenberg's column. Sorry.
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