The b-word and education politics
Blogger KDeRosa calls George Miller “a Whiny Bitch” (hat tip), which makes me wonder where this performative name-calling came from (see Andy Rotherham’s running joke about Rick Hess, though I don’t know where that came from, either, and I thought it would be more appropriate to call him Rick “Baby” Hess, since that’s the interjection he uses […]
Five-Year Plans and Ed Trust flexibility
Trust it to AFT’s Michele McLaughlin to find the hidden item in the Ed Trust statement on Miller-McKeon’s draft Title I language. Like many others, I had focused on the more belligerent language earlier: Although the staff draft creates an accountability fig-leaf by preserving the requirement that all students reach proficiency in reading and mathematics […]