Oprah Strikes Again

September 26, 2010

(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)

Oprah went back to the Waiting for Superman theme on Friday.

Geoffrey Canada is on fire, Cory Booker is too: “We cannot have a superior democracy with an inferior education system.”

Gov. Christie is giving control over the Newark school system to Cory, and Zuckerberg made a $100 million donation to help make it work.

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Oprah on Waiting for Superman

September 21, 2010

(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)

HT: Whitney Tilson

Are the stars lining up against the teacher union reactionaries? Four years ago, Oprah felt the need to allow the Savage Inequalities guy babble out his cartoon for purposes of cover, but she didn’t bother with any of that this time.  I’m starting to entertain the notion that Waiting for Superman might be a very big deal. The unions have lost the war of ideas, this film powerfully makes that point in an incredibly poignant fashion, and many union puppets will be looking for a new line of work in a few weeks.

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