Rick Hess's Straight Up blog at Education Week proves often to be valuable not for his intended messages, but for what he reveals about education reformers committed to choice and competition as paradigms for that reform.
In his "Sanctimonious Scolding Isn't a Great Strategy for Promoting School Choice"posting, Hess makes an important statement at the end:
"Rather than obey the moral instruction of do-gooders, middle-class and suburban families tend to put themselves and their kids first (and, for the record, I don't see the problem with that; hell, it's kind of the logic of school choice, after all). If accepting school choice
