Monday, August 22, 2011

IEA media discussion. « Fred Klonsky's blog

IEA media discussion. « Fred Klonsky's blog

IEA media discussion.

From Tim Furman:

You make a good point. I wouldn’t expect a link out of IEA— if I got one, I would think I was losing my edge– but there are a lot excellent, in-the-trenches bloggers with rich, informed blogrolls. I find new ones all the time. Even if he wanted to pick from posts that don’t criticize IEA-help positions, he’s got a lot of options.

Ironically, yesterday I was remarking that Ezra Klein at the Washington Post occasionally chimes in on ed policy, but he relies solely on Matt Yglesias at Think Progress, whose ed policy writing is not terrible but is predicated on a reformy outlook— sort of an unquestioning attitude toward “accountability” and the widely promulgated myth of systemic public school failure. It’s as if Ezra