Will Rachel Maddow cover Ed Deform honestly? Write her & find out:

[Hannah Bell]

My letter to Rachel Maddow, the best chance on Microsoft-NBC to get someone on screen to counter the media blitzkrieg from the oligarchs. Please copy this one, or write you own today to [e-mail]:

Dear Rachel:

During this week's wall to wall promotion of "Waiting for Superman" and the corporate solutions emanating from that film (the ones paid for by Gates, the Waltons, and the rest of the "Billionaire Boys Club" (Ravitch, 2010)), I and millions of others are waiting, instead, for some coverage of the public educators' and parents' position regarding the agenda of total compliance charters, evaluations based on test scores, end of tenure, constant testing, etc.

We know that we can't count on 99% of reporters to know shit from shinola about ed issues, but we know, too, that you are very savvy and have a very savvy staff. Can you please schedule one (just one) guest this week to counter the Microsoft-NBC message? Some potential guests? Diane Ravitch, David Berliner, Rick Ayers, Monty Neill, Deborah Meier, Linda Darling-Hammond, Henry Giroux. I have a long list of possibilities....

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/09/write-rachel.html

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I find it hilarious that Linda Darling-Hammond is listed.

Who do you think brought in Arne Duncan and the rest of Obama's team? She did! She lead the administration's transition team on education!

[Hannah Bell]

2. i don't think she's so great either, but she didn't "bring in" duncan.

[speppin]

3. Things would have been way different if she was S of Ed....As far

as I know she was not that much of a fan of Duncan over the years.




http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/education-secretary-duncan/why-obama-duncan-should-read-l.html


....http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/d/linda_darlinghammond/index.html