Education Love-Fest on "Morning Joe"

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CJ Westerberg, March 1, 2011 10:08 AM

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You have to link the foreign policy of America with to a strong education system because it is about the future of our children."
Howard Shultz, CEO Starbucks

"Thowing more money at schools will not improve education outcomes . . .

We've gotta be smart about it . . ."
-Geoffrey Canada, Founder Harlem Childrens' Zone

"We have to raise the place of teaching in society."
- Tom Brokaw

Pushing against the Status-Quo
and for the Re-invention of Education

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Randi Weingarten, Geoffrey Canada, and Howard Shultz, CEO of Starbucks, join Mika Brzezinski, Tom Brokaw, Mike Barnicle and Willie Geist on "Morning Joe" in Part 2 of
announcement today about an education collaboration with MSNBC and Starbucks.
Part 1 link here.

Topics:
Equity, quality, collaboration, replicating schools from Finland and Singapore, teacher professionalism, tenure, merit pay, teacher professionalism, unions.

Howard Schultz's wrap-up stated the goals of this commitment to education:

"Not embracing the status quo and doing everything we can to push for re-invention and self-renewal in education."

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