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Twice in the same week, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had a chance to skewer the wacky world of education reform and blew their opportunities.
Both Lewis Black's piece on "the public school crisis" that aired on Stewart's "The Daily Show" last Tuesday and Colbert's Thursday night interview with "Waiting for 'Superman' " director Davis Guggenheim left me wondering why education reform hasn't been more of a high-value target for these two funny men.
The reform world is dripping with hilarious promise.
There are characters to lampoon: School superintendents who are education's fundamentalists, believing that only they know the way to reform heaven.
There are issues to rip open: The standardized testing obsession; the charter school obsession; the insistence of first the Bush administration, and now the Obama