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Educator and writer John Thompson proved to be prophetic in a Huffington Post piece last month when he wrote this:
Education beat writers demonstrate the same excellence as other journalists. The problem is Op Ed columnists and other writers who seem to know no more about schools than what they hear at cocktail parties. Thomas Friedman, Jonathan Alter, and company love to pass on the talking points of “reformers” who share their isolation from urban schools. That is why we need a primer for non-educators who write about education.
Friedman proved Thompson to be a genius just eight days later in his New York Times column where Friedman, a respected foreign policy observer,  wrote this of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
President Obama is assembling his new national security team, with Senator John Kerry possibly