On first glance I mistook Grady White's illustration for a comic, which got me trying to puzzle out the hidden forces reconfiguring the chairs between panels. Reading Diane Ravitch's article, though, I realized that the panels are not sequential, but rather represent answers to the multiple-choice question of education reform. It's a nice gloss on the article, which confronts the notion that merely choosing to reform a failing system is enough and never mind what part of the system should change. I read White's use of chairs to signify the choices as an allusion to deck chair rearrangement on the Titanic, but maybe I'm just cynical-minded. Clever enough illo, in any case.
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