Monday, January 26, 2009

Quotables

My favorite quote this week comes from wing-nut Bill Kristol's column, "Can Obama Save Liberalism" in today's NYT. It goes like this:
This is William Kristol’s last column.

A Journal-Constitution reader at The Vent asks:

Am I just being ignorant for failing to understand that with Bill Gates’ net worth of $58 billion, it can still be OK to have 5,000 jobs cut at Microsoft?

Deb Meier at Bridging Differences:

The “other guys” have had their little experiment with our kids. It isn’t working. How can we at least open the doors again—as they were for a short period in the 80s and early 90s—for those who want to really be experimental? I had hoped that charters would at least produce some fresh ideas. In fact, constrained as they are by the same set of shabby goals (higher test scores) they’ve mostly “pioneered” only more of the same.

Gotham Schools on LD-H and the Bolder, Broader/EEP debate:

The wide distance between Darling-Hammond’s proposals and those favored by the current reformers seemed to me to be highlighted by the fact that the panel moderator, Deborah Meier, who despises No Child Left Behind, nodded appreciatively at what Darling-Hammond had to say. Yet one person on the panel, Thomas Payzant, of Harvard and formerly of Boston, insisted the differences between the two groups of Democrats are overplayed. And indeed, there were some points of agreement even between Darling-Hammond and the nameless reformers.

National standards guru, Mark Tucker quoted at Education Blog:

Among the best known of these entrepreneurs are people like Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, which recruits graduates of elite universities to spend two years teaching at some of the country’s worst schools. The line of limousines gathered for a recent fund-raising benefit the group held in New York reportedly went around an entire city block at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Five million dollars was raised in one night. Other well-known entrepreneurs include Green Dot and KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program), which operate charter schools.



1 comment:

  1. Classic first quote. Love it. Thanks for the healthy laugh!

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