Dan Weisberg will be David Banks No. 2 guy in the DOE. Comes out of the
Michelle Rhee project! This note is written by Gary Rubinstein, who is a
longtime critic of the union-busing "education reformers." See his column
below.
Gary Rubinstein: One of the “Most Dangerous” Reformers Will Be #2 in NYC
Ed Department
dianeravitch posted: " Gary Rubinstein writes here about the new leadership
of the New York City Department of Education. He begins: Eric Adams will
become the next Mayor of New York City on January 1st. He will hire David
Banks as the new schools Chancellor. And Banks "
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Gary Rubinstein writes here about
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the new leadership of the New York City Department of Education.
He begins:
*Eric Adams will become the next Mayor of New York City on January 1st. He
will hire David Banks as the new schools Chancellor. And Banks will bring
in Dan Weisberg as his top deputy.*
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Weisberg
*Unfortunately Dan Weisberg is one of the most dangerous people in the
country who could rise to be the second highest ranking administrator in
New York City…*
*In the article from Chalkbeat, NY
<https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/9/22826524/david-banks-chancellor-eric-adams>,
Alex Zimmerman tries hard to sugarcoat the background of this controversial
pick. He writes:*
He has tapped Dan Weisberg — who runs an organization focused on teacher
quality and handled labor issues under Mayor Michael Bloomberg — to be his
top deputy. That move is likely to raise eyebrows with the city’s teachers
union, which has previously clashed with Weisberg.
*So what is this “organization focused on teacher quality”? Well it is TNTP
which once stood for The New Teacher Project. TNTP was founded by Michelle
Rhee in 1997. What started out as a Teach For America type program for
training career changers to become teachers quickly became an education
reform propaganda organization. In 2009 they got into funding ‘research’
and their first publication was called ‘The Widget Effect’ which argued the
benefits of merit pay for teachers based on standardized test scores. This
publication is still often quoted despite very shoddy statistical
practices. Dan Weisberg was the lead author of ‘The Widget Effect.’ More
recently they put out something called “The Opportunity Myth” about how
most teachers have low expectations because they do activities that don’t
completely adhere to the researcher’s interpretation of the Common Core
Standards.*
*Fifteen years ago there were plenty of Michelle Rhee type reformers in
leadership positions in school districts around the country. As that brand
of reform failed to deliver results, those reformers took positions in
think tanks where they could make a lot more money but where they would not
have such direct power over school systems.*
*Back in the Bloomberg/Klein days, people like Weisberg would celebrate
judicial rulings where parents would fight to not have their children’s
schools shut down. Charter schools, in the wake of ‘Waiting For Superman’,
were supposedly proving that all you needed to turn around a school was to
staff them with non-unionized teachers. Teacher bashing was all the rage,
they even had their own Walton funded movie flop ‘Won’t Back Down.’*
*But things are different now. Reformers are not as brazen as they once
were. The charter bubble has burst a bit, though Bloomberg has $750 million
that says he can revive it. But it will be hard. With the failures of
projects like The Achievement District in Tennessee, it will a a tougher
sell to say that we need to replicate their accomplishments. Back in the
day, there would be so much talk of charters that were beating the odds
with 100% graduation rates or 100% college acceptance rates. Those stores
were debunked so often that even The74 hardly runs stories like that
anymore. Does anyone know whatever happened to KIPP? The only charter chain
that can even claim to get good test scores is Success Academy, and even
reformers hardly like to talk about them since they boot (or discourage
from enrolling) so many kids who might bring down their precious test
scores.*
*So where does a teacher basher fit into the current system? As a New York
City teacher with two kids in the system, I’m a bit scared to find out.*
Gary follows up with anti-teacher, anti-union tweets by Weisberg, as well
as congratulatory tweets from the hardcore reformers.
Hold on, tight, NYC teachers. You are in for a rough ride.
*dianeravitch <http://dianeravitch.net/author/dianerav/>* | December 12,
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