Et tu, Yglesias?
by Robert PondiscioJune 16th, 2011
Oh no he didn’t!
American Progress pundit Matthew Yglesias commits the unpardonable sin of repeating what has to be to most wrong-headed idea in all of education: that teaching kids content can wait until they’ve learned the “skill” of reading. He wraps up a column on the just-released NAEP history scores with this jaw-dropper:
“What we’re seeing, in particular, is that trying to teach history to kids who
