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ArchieStone1 Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 12:43 AM
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Why do all op-eds on the education by mainstream pundits sound alike?
Edited on Mon Mar-30-09 12:44 AM by ArchieStone1
Today it's the turn of the Washington Post, via Fred Hiatt. He basically repeats what Cohen, Kristof and every mainstream columnist always say:

Michelle Rhee is great.
Charter schools are great.
Merit Pay is great.
Teacher unions are evil.

That's it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/29/AR2009032901353.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 12:44 AM
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1. Who's Michelle Rhee?
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 12:51 AM
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2. DC school chancellor
'new' and somewhat radical.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 12:55 AM
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3. NON-main stream pundit
WaPo local educ writer Jay Matthews

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/29/AR2009032902225.html?hpid=sec-education
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Bigmack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 01:15 AM
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4. The fast answer is....
none of those pundits ever faced 5 classes of HS sophomores a day for 20 years or so. They should try it.

After that amount of time in combat, those pundits (actually, the surviving pundits) would write a very different story.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 02:57 AM
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5. because those things are on the ruling class agenda for the future of education.
and 99% of pundits are paid shills.

duh.
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TWiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 04:28 AM
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6. Because you cannot teach "Human Sacrifice in the 21st Century" in public school?
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 05:19 AM
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7. The Goldberg-Lopez fiasco might help explain it ...
... http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/19021.html

The gist: two articles were posted online under two different names, Jonah Goldberg and Kathryn Jean Lopez. The problem? They were identical, word-for-word.
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