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Lawrence Davidson • “Taking on the Teachers†• Truthout (23 Mar 2011)Consortium News Editor’s Note: The American Right has fully embraced Ronald Reagan’s mantra that “government is the problem†— and that dogma is being applied in a wide variety of ways, including a nationwide assault on the pay and job security of public school teachers.
Republican-controlled state legislatures and Republican governors are in the forefront of this campaign, advancing under the cover of parents’ concerns about their kids' schooling and behind the idea that standardized tests can be a cure-all. In this guest essay, Lawrence Davidson challenges the assumptions behind this effort …