Insult of insults from Third Way – Baker, You… You… Status Quo…er!
I gotta admit that my favorite part of the Third Way memo responding to my critique of their “Middle Class” report is the end of the memo.
Here are the two concluding paragraphs from the Third Way memo in reply to my rather harsh critique of their report:
There are 52,860 public and charter schools that fall within our definition of middle-class schools, and they educate 25.7 million16 students. The message from Dr. Baker and the NEPC seems to be—let’s ignore them. In fact, let’s not even define them. Our view is that there is immense potential out there. These schools are failing in their basic mission—to become college factories.
From our perspective, college graduation rates of 31% and 23% in the second and third NSLP groupings, respectively—as our report presents—are unacceptable for America’s economic future.
