In a world where the the American economy wasn’t on the verge of collapse, I’d spend a lot of time hyping Kevin Carey’s article detailing how Democrats have lost their momentum on education and fallen into a defensive, uninspiring, posture. The idea that Republicans have been able to wrest the mantle of improvement and reform on an issue as central to the progressive project as education is, frankly, embarrassing. So read Kevin Carey. And then, when you’re done, you should read some more Kevin Carey, as he also wrote a great piece on the ways in which the focus on teacher autonomy has limited the space for teacher achievement.
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