Schools Matter: Parent Trigger charlatan Ben Austin booted off The State Bar of California

"Making students accountable for test scores works well on a bumper sticker and it allows many politicians to look good by saying that they will not tolerate failure. But it represents a hollow promise. Far from improving education, high-stakes testing marks a major retreat from fairness, from accuracy, from quality, and from equity." — Sen. Paul Wellstone (1944-2002) quoted on Alfie Kohn's site


Apparently the right wingers at Parent Revolution are immune to cognitive dissonance. How else could we explain an organization that frequently co-hosts meetings with The Heartland Institute calling the National Educators Association (NEA) teabaggers?

In my latest Schools Matter piece: Parent Trigger charlatan Ben Austin booted off The State Bar of California I point out how absurd it is for Austin and his trigger happy privatizers to talk about accountability in the light of the multiple ethics violations they have been investigated and censured over. Moreover, we learn that Austin's status with The State Bar of California is currently "Not Entitled" because he failed to take an ethics course.

Published 2011-11-09 on Schools Matter, please read it there and share widely.

Schools Matter: Parent Trigger charlatan Ben Austin booted off The State Bar of California