Saturday, April 9, 2011
After 3 Months, Mayor Replaces Schools Leader
NY TIMES As we have all heard NYC Department Of Education has replaced Cathi Black with a new chancellor of New York City Schools. There has been alot of debate about education being a buisness. What is your opinion? Do you think is better; having a educator run the DOE or a buisness woman/man? What would be a positives and negatives of both? Give it a few months and we'll see if allowing an educator to run to DOE is a better idea.
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I'm wondering if the last in first out was her idea. It was a very business like idea. I think maybe it was a wakeup call for non-educators. Its not as easy as you think. Education is NOT a business, students are NOT a product. They are individuals. So sad that that our system is failing, but have people who understand the system try to fix it.
ReplyDeleteI think it is an extremely difficult position to fill. Ideally, you want someone who is at heart an educator, but since they are overseeing the system on the state level, they need to have good administrative and management skills. As we keep mentioning, the education system for low-income kids is broken, at state and national levels. The ideal person would be someone with an education background that is also creative and visionary, like Geoffrey Canada, who was featured in the Superman doc.
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