The faces that dominate the education reform debate today—where “education reform” means increased reliance on standardized tests, the results of which are then used to determine the fates of teachers whose job security has been weakened—are people like former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and Harlem Children’s Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada
Obama’s evolution could have a wider impact than expected As a local volunteer official with the Democratic Party, I sometimes have the privilege of speaking about the Party, its platform and its values to groups of students at local community colleges and high schools. Although my bias is evident, I do my best to present as even-handed an account as possible about our positions and the way they compare to those of the other side
Anderson Cooper has done it again, and if this keeps up, there’s hope Cooper has changed.
In honor of the G-8 Summit, and with the Olympics a few months away, thought you might like a chance to weigh in on your favorite national anthems. Generally speaking, most countries have atrocious, unsingable, uninspiring audio dreck.
Daryl Cagle via politicalcartoons.com William Galston is a noted scholar (formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland) and experienced political hand (Bill Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy in the ’90s) who is currently the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This past week, Dr
Coward. (Darren Hauck/Reuters) Take a minute and think carefully of all the public figures you’ve disliked throughout your life. File through all the politicians, entertainers, sports figures, and the like
The jury box in the Pershing County, Nevada courthouse. ( Ken Lund/Wikimedia ) Growing up, I seem to remember being taught or hearing the phrase about a right to a trial by a “jury of your peers.” I didn’t know then that nowhere in the constitution are “peers” mentioned, only the word “impartial.” I got taught black history at home, not in school, and my parents discussed the news of the day at the dining table, so I was aware that in many parts of the U.S. we couldn’t vote, and the phrase ” all-white jury ” was often attached to stark injustices taking place.
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Visual source: Newseum Austerity champions and deficit fetishists in the Republican Party have pushed economic policies that hurt the vast majority of Americans.
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