Jeff Bryant Compares Duncan–Hess and Harris-Perry–Ravitch Videos
In his weekly column for the Education Opportunity Network (a project of the Campaign for America’s Future and the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign), Jeff Bryant compares and contrasts videos that represent the polarization of the debate about public school reform.
The first video presents Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Bryant comments: “Like dueling fog machines, over-stuffed with rhetoric we’ve come to expect from D.C., Hess spoke of ‘slippery slopes’ and ‘bright lines’ while Duncan waxed effusively about the apparent evils of ‘dummying down standards’ and ‘letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.’ Outside the Beltway, almost no one talks like this or