Merit pay: It will make our students smart, our schools safe, and our hair shiny and manageable. Or will it? Dana Goldstein looks at the education reform debate and wonders if this panacea isn't really just snake oil.
Meanwhile, Paul Waldman considers the epic battle between new media and old.
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