Education: Where the Bar Ought to Be
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 24th, 2010 5:32 am by HL
Education: Where the Bar Ought to Be
Bob Herbert, New York Times
Deborah Kenny talks a lot about passion "” the passion for teaching, for reading and for learning. She has it. She wants all of her teachers to have it. Above all, she wants her students to have it.Bob Herbert Ms. Kenny has created three phenomenally successful charter schools in Harlem and is in the process of creating more. She's gotten a great deal of national attention. But for all the talk about improving schools in this country, she thinks we tend to miss the point more often than not.There is an overemphasis on "the program elements," she…
Tea Party Movement Will Flame Out
Mark Schmitt, American Prospect
Michele Bachmann speaks at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore)As the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) overtook Washington this past week, the cheering for Dick Cheney, the sessions promoting "nullification" (the concept that states can opt out of federal laws, last heard from John C. Calhoun in the 1830s), and the angry rants about ACORN and homosexuality were a reminder that the idea that there is a "conservatism" that is measured, responsible, decent, and worthy of the word is a bit of a myth. As the…
Picking the Best of Bad Choices on Iran
Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast
Rumbling Over Rahm Emanuel
Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast
Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message: Alex Brandon / AP Photo Leslie H. Gelb's call for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to be reassigned spurred a circle-the-wagons reaction from pro- (or perhaps even anti-) Rahm forces. Gelb sifts the fallout for clues. When you write that the president of the United States should replace his chief of staff, someone will fire back. So it was that Rahm Emanuel apparently struck back at my piece last week on The Daily Beast …
