There is a revolution going on, America! It's called "education reform," and it features a series of kick-butt, take-no-prisoners leaders coming in and cleaning up the mess in our public schools.
So who are these education super-heroes?
Are they passionate, bleeding-heart teachers like the kind we see in movies like "Stand & Deliver" or "The Freedom Writers" -- people who inspire low-income kids to reach for their dreams?
Are they baseball bat-wielding principals like Joe Louis Clark, who inspired the film, "Lean on Me," and was known for being an autocratic, fearsome leader?
No, they are neither. They are, mostly, businesspeople. Very few of them have any teaching experience at all -- and many of them stand to profit hugely from exactly the reform that they are promoting: charter schools and testing accountability.
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