Stupid bureaucratese of the week
Via Elsa Haas on a listserv and Judy Rabin comes news of a Staten Island school that is demanding the parents of a multiracial child pick one of the OMB’s 5 racial/ethnicity categories*, or the parents won’t get her kindergarten school report. (*—the ‘canonical’ five categories derive from a 1970s-era directive of that federal bureau […]
The Hamilton Project and education
A brief observation on political positioning: It’s sort of about the substance. The aggregation of the new Hamilton Project is a case in point. Headlined by Richard Rubin and headed by Peter Orszag (the Brookings fellow who neatly dissembled Bush’s Social Security plans), the project promises to lay out policies in a variety of areas […]