Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Contradictions, contradictions

I sip my coffee watching Morning Joe on MSNBC. A couple of mornings ago, within the space of two breaths, Joe Scarborough lauded a plan to nationalize math and reading teaching--"national textbooks" in these subjects--and blasted a politician who opposed the creation of more charter schools in New York.

Huh?

Doesn't he see that charter schools succeed--when they do succeed; it's not a given that they will--by not following the path that leads to a national curriculum?

Or that a national curriculum in a nation as diverse as the U.S. is senseless?

But, I fear, his views represent too many of us.

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