You Can't Waive The Reality Of Our Public Schools
By Jeff Bryant
August 11, 2011 - 1:28pm ET
So much for the "New Washington Consensus on Education".
Education policy, we were told by conservative leaders merely six months ago, was a " redeeming feature" of the Obama administration that would provide DC policy makers with a tranquil eddy amidst the whitewater of American politics.
The New Consensus was forged on the idea that federal policies governing the nation's schools could enforce “tight” restrictions on what we expect public schools to make students and teachers "do," as long as the governing policies remained "loose" about how we make them do it.
The last glimpse of this glorious, technocratic vision slipped out from an