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Hirsch, Jr.\u00a0 And just to make it more interesting, he added what he called his wild card:\u00a0 the \u201cRoberto\/Robert team,\u201d comprised of Roberto Rodriguez, Special Assistant to President Obama for Education, and Robert Gordon of the OMB tasked with finding wasted cash in the education and labor sectors.\u00a0 Merrow speculates that these two players could, in the process of doing their jobs, cause gridlock in education reform\u2014a \u201cRodriguez proposes and Gordon disposes\u201d scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Merrow\u2019s readers overwhelmingly chose Diane Ravitch as the most influential American educator.\u00a0 He noted that he was not surprised by her victory, but that the \u201copposing army,\u201d whose members include Brian Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Teach for America, Michelle Rhee, charter school supporters, and powerful business and financial leaders, is particularly well-armed for conflict.\u00a0 A standout member of this group is <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist David Brooks, who took Ravitch to task just a few days after she had been crowned by Merrow\u2019s readers.\u00a0 The attack was thorough, and has added more fuel to the fire that is the education war.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/takingnote.learningmatters.tv\/\">http:\/\/takingnote.learningmatters.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago renowned education journalist John Merrow began speculating on who might be the most influential educator in America.\u00a0 Of his four \u201cnominees,\u201d (Wendy Kopp, Big Bird, Arne Duncan and Joel Klein), Merrow settled on Joel Klein, former New York City School chancellor, for his \u201cremarkable network of eleven prot\u00e9g\u00e9s now influencing what happens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/education-wars-who-is-the-most-influential-educator\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Education Wars: Who is the Most Influential Educator?<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[125,92,77],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-reform-leadership","tag-john-merrow","tag-politics","tag-school-reform"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Education Wars: Who is the Most Influential Educator? 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