Category — Education
National “Common Core” Standards
"Centralized control in the U.S. Department of Education would upset the system of checks and balances between different levels of government, creating greater opportunities for special interests to use their national political leverage to distort policy." But centralized control is precisely what this administration seeks to achieve. Read the rest of this entry »
June 10, 2011 16 Comments
Redefining Terms
Ideas have meaning and power. Redefining the words that define them can have larger consequences that it might seem. Read the rest of this entry »
June 21, 2010 2 Comments
The Sucker List
“The public school system has been described as the best sucker list in America. Because of the delivery power of the attendance officer, educational policy is highly vulnerable to use by special interests to forward their personal and public causes.
March 21, 2010 1 Comment
The Price of Ignorance
“Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course, the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be better observed, but their source by …
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