{"id":1364,"date":"2008-06-13T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2008-06-13T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:17:03","slug":"i-was-manifestoly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"I was manifest(o)ly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=''>Several days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/001320.html\">I echoed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/edwize.org\/obama-catch-this-softball-the-centerleft-counter-attack-on-education-policy\">Steve Diamond<\/a>&#8216;s argument that the dueling manifestoes this week are related to &#8220;the battle for the soul of Barack Obama.&#8221; Larry Mishel took me to task in comments, and I will now publicly apologize, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/13\/opinion\/13brooks.html?_r=2&#038;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">David Brooks has now made the same point<\/a> Diamond and I did. In his Manichean spin, Brooks claims that one cannot agree with both manifestoes, and that they represent the <i>status quo<\/i> camp and the <i>reform<\/i> camp. But wait: isn&#8217;t NCLB the status quo, and high-stakes accountability the status quo in many states before that? And how does Brooks&#8217; one-or-the-other story jibe with Arne Duncan&#8217;s being a signatory on both? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonk.com\/2008\/06\/another-dayanother-manifesto.html\">And per Eduwonk&#8217;s offhand remark<\/a>, do we really need another controversial local superintendent bumped up to Secretary of Education?) Quick, everyone: post sentries at the camp entrances! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago, I echoed Steve Diamond&#8216;s argument that the dueling manifestoes this week are related to &#8220;the battle for the soul of Barack Obama.&#8221; Larry Mishel took me to task in comments, and I will now publicly apologize, since David Brooks has now made the same point Diamond and I did. In his Manichean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-m0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}