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 McGuinn, […]
Evans Clinchy, Rescuing the Public Schoo...
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 havoc. […]