This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
SemiDems and NeoCons
Susan Ohanian carries news of the latest venture by Andy Rotherham, rising star of the SemiDems, those inheritors of the decade of Clintonian kowtowing to the kinder and gentler fascism of the 1990s. Representing the best of NeoCon Lite thinking on all matters of education policy, Rotherham and other underemployed DLC advisors and former Clinton speechwriters are now elbowing their way to the educational testing trough in hopes of sustaining their own contributions to the continuing deconstruction of the American public education system.
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