WEEKEND QUOTABLES
The wisdom of the elites
"The fact is that what we’re experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. The policies that got us into this mess weren’t responses to public demand. They were, with few exceptions, policies championed by small groups of influential people — in many cases, the same people now lecturing the rest of us on the need to get serious. And by trying to shift the blame to the general populace, elites are ducking some much-needed reflection on their own catastrophic mistakes." -- Paul Krugman, NYT
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| Freedom riders |
Nancy Flanagan responds to Duncan
"It's time to remember the Freedom Riders, who risked their very lives fifty years ago this week, to achieve democratic equality. Notsegregated charter schools which a handful of lottery-winners get to attend. Not classrooms staffed by two-year adventure teachers . Not watered-down, low-level curriculum and test items.' -- Edweek
Punishing L.A. high schools for low scores
"The original goal of the funding was to see what a struggling school