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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Triple Play


Triple Play:

"Three of the most incongruous characters on the American political stage have teamed up into an improbable though not altogether unholy alliance, being that 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

They are U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, former Republican House Speaker and NCLB-cultist Newt Gingrich and Rev. Al Sharpton, a fixture on the New York City landscape for decades.

They may not neatly fit the descriptions of 'left-fielder' or 'right-fielder,' but they sure are all fixin' to bat 'cleanup.'

Their position is that 'reforms,' ( such as merit pay, charter school expansion, and revised accountability measures) are needed to cleanse the entrenched failed culture of America's public schools."