Hail, Nicholas Kristof, for moving the “national newspaper of record” toward our team. It’s about time. “Occupy the Classroom,” his paean to early childhood education is, as I write, number six on the New York Times “Most Emailed” list. How clever of him to transpose the country’s fixation on Wall Street and income inequality into a [... click post title to read more ...]
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Where did the summer go? Wasn’t it just yesterday that we welcomed the solstice? What havoc nature wreaked: earthquake, hurricanes, epic floods and drought. Not to mention our human-made disasters: debt ceiling hysteria, a dangerously stalled economy, rising unemployment. And a poverty rate for children of 22 percent. Then there was Rick Santorum’s rant against [... click post title to read more ...] Print This Post
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I’m feeling a bit bipolar at the moment. Wasn’t it just yesterday that I was lamenting the ugly tenor of the education reform debate, highlighting the scapegoating of parents? And today, I’m coming down from the high of watching Arne Duncan and Kathleen Sebelius jointly announce $500 million worth of funding for the Race to [... click post title to read more ...] Print This Post
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