Re: [Fwd: [Gadfly] News and Analysis from the Fordham Foundation]

[gerald bracey <gbracey@EROLS.COM>]

I didn't get to see the PBS series because we just switched to Direct TV and
get the national feed which carried the series late in the night nights
later.  Natch.  I am glad, though, that Checker had trouble with it.

I saw the series last winter and commented that the fourth segment was too
much Checker and Diane, which the two Sarahs already knew.  That Checker has
trouble tells me they got rid of some of the conservative position which
dominated the fourth segment's rough cut.  When I spoke with them they
already knew it was too one-sided.

Sarah Patton has said she'll get me a tape.

By the way, in referring to Mort Mondale, Checker calls him the "quandom NEA
official."  None of my dictionaries contains "quandom".  I have no idea what
it means and can't anything that might be a typo.

I doubt VERY seriously, though, that Mort, althought the brother of Walter,
had the kind of clout to lean on Jimmy Carter for a separate Department of
Education.  The whole NEA pushed that.  Certainly when I met Mort he was one
staffer among hundreds.  Maybe his star dimmed with his brother's.

Jb


----- Original Message -----
From: "George N. Schmidt" <Csubstance@AOL.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Gadfly] News and Analysis from the Fordham Foundation]


> In a message dated 9/6/01 5:06:53 PM, kscanty@PACBELL.NET writes:
>
> << Wonder if anyone else watched the PBS special on School and had any
>
> thoughts....I enjoyed it  - thought they missed some large issues - like
>
> funding for special education - but hit some really good
>
> points...interesting that Finn has such trouble with it....
>
>  >>
>
> Did I miss the role of teacher associations and teacher unions (I only saw
> the second parts)?
>
> Of have we just witnessed another example of making sure that the official
> version of history says as little as possible about unions (and strikes)?
>
> George Schmidt
>
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