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Susan Jacoby Bungles Education Reform

March 19, 2010
By Kevin R. Kosar
Susan Jacoby Bungles Education Reform

On March 14, 2010, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Susan Jacoby on education and federalism. Jacoby has written widely and smartly on many subjects, but why the Times felt she should handle this subject is a mystery to me.  Plenty of other thinkers could have done a bang-up job, like Patrick...
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Evans Clinchy, Rescuing the Public Schools What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind (New York: Teachers College Press, 2007)

July 16, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Evans Clinchy, Rescuing the Public Schools What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind (New York: Teachers College Press, 2007)

Ugh- Get Me a Re-Write, by Kevin R. Kosar, February 2009 This book has a few good ideas in it and some entertaining yarns; but as a whole, it is not worth the reader’s time. Clinchy rants that U.S. schools are awful and that the No Child Left Behind Act and privatization are wreaking...
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Books I’ve Recently Enjoyed

Non-Fiction: Kathryn A. Jacob, King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age (2010).

Non-Fiction: Philip Terzian, Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (2010).

Fiction: David Lodge, Thinks (2001)

Non-Fiction: Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition (2010)

Non-Fiction: Christopher Buckley, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (2009)

Non-Fiction: Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (2007)

Fiction: John Le Carre A Most Wanted Man (2008)

Fiction: John Le Carre Our Game (1995)

Fiction: John Le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Into Your Tent I'll Creep (1971)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Peckham's Marbles (1986)

Fiction: Georges Simenon Three Beds in Manhattan (1964)

Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day (1988)