Rose and Black similarities and differences.

Similarities

Both Rose and Black agree that we spend too much money in the wrong area.

 On the resolution list, resolution #3 Rose states that we need to stop looking for the structural or technological magic bullet – whether it’s charter schools or value-added analysis – that will improve education. Just when you think the lesson is learned – that the failure of last year’s miracle cure is acknowledged and lamented – our attention is absorbed by a new quick fix.
 In comparison Black referred to the Kennedy school in L.A. Cost 580 million. In a area that has the highest drop out rate. Unemployment is at 12.3% and the state is broke, but yet they spent 580 million, on a school. Blacks solution is to put money into the schools we already have, give more challenging curriculum and more one on one help to students, not new schools. Black also gives us his view on Charter schools, let's fix the schools we have before starting new ones.

 #9 also fits into this as well:  9) To rethink, or at least be cautious about, the drive to bring any successful practice or structure “to scale”. Of course we want to learn from what’s good and try to replicate it, but too often the notion of “scaling up” plays out in a mechanical way, doing more or building more of something without much thought given to the fact that any human activity occurs in a context, in a time and place, and therefore a simple replication of the practice in one community might not achieve the same results it did in its original setting.

Resolution #6: To ensure that people who actually know a lot about schools will appear on Oprah and will be consulted by politicians and policy makers. When President Obama visited my home state of California, the person he met with to talk about education was Steve Jobs.
A few examples of this is when Black refers to NBC's week long special Education Nation. In his opinion the people involved with this week long project really knew nothing about education. He also pointed out that the suggestion of walking in to a school and  asking how I can help is absurd. And then there was the reality show where Tony Danza was a 10th grade English teacher, someone who is not qualified to teach.

Differences

I think that Rose offered more solutions and took a more serious note, where Black is using humor to reach his audience on this topic.

Rose always gets deeper into the whole system, and backs up his claims with facts and numbers.