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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Jonny Alter's Head Pops Off

Jersey Jazzman: Jonny Alter's Head Pops Off:


Jonny Alter's Head Pops Off




I missed this clip at last weekends's Education Nation from MSNBC. It's well worth watching, if only for the entertainment value of seeing pundit Jonathan Alter lose his cool when someone who knows what the hell their talking about calls him out:


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The best part is when Alter says, "No offense." Yeah, sure: why would Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig take offense at having his peer-reviewed study be called "cherry-picking" and "bogus" on national TV?

Alter is part of the great mass of pundits who continue to write about education without