The best cartoons hit a nerve, including one about education in the current issue of The New Yorker magazine.
Sitting in a park, two rather snooty looking mothers with toddlers are having a conversation. One assures the other, “We believe in the concept of public education.” But in reality? Well, they are probably like the narrator of “Waiting for Superman,” the controversial documentary about the failures of urban public education now playing at Sundance theater in Madison and in other theaters around the country.
Quoted: Gloria Ladson-Billings and Michael Apple, UW-Madison professors of curriculum and instruction in the School of Education.