Open Letter to Jon Stewart: Please Interview Your Mother
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Dear Jon Stewart,
Your show Wednesday night with White House domestic affairs chief Melody Barnes was remarkable, in that you showed a far greater depth of understanding of education issues than did your guest.
When you asked Ms. Barnes what work she felt proudest of, she said "...the work we have done around education has been a game-changer." What a word. Where have I heard that before? Oh yes. That was George W. Bush' Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' favorite way of describing NCLB -- see here,
here,
and here.
Unfortunately the White House is still playing the same games, and we are still waiting for a change.
You pushed Ms. Barnes a bit about K-12 education. You said,
Dear Jon Stewart,
Your show Wednesday night with White House domestic affairs chief Melody Barnes was remarkable, in that you showed a far greater depth of understanding of education issues than did your guest.
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When you asked Ms. Barnes what work she felt proudest of, she said "...the work we have done around education has been a game-changer." What a word. Where have I heard that before? Oh yes. That was George W. Bush' Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' favorite way of describing NCLB -- see here,
here,
and here.
Unfortunately the White House is still playing the same games, and we are still waiting for a change.
You pushed Ms. Barnes a bit about K-12 education. You said,
The biggest complaint I hear from teachers, and by teachers I mean my mom, the teaching to the
