Quotables

NYT's Elissa Gootman on NY Chancellor Joel Klein:

But among some of the state lawmakers who will determine the fate of the nation’s largest school system, Mr. Klein is reviled: as an arrogant outsider obsessed with accountability, a tone-deaf suit unwilling to consider parents’ views in what one politician called “a silencing of the lambs.”

Deborah Meier at Bridging Differences on so-called "21st Century Skills":

Human beings are going to create the 21st Century, not “fit into it”—I hope.

Steven Mufson at WaPo:

The price of a GE share, $6.66, was less than the cost of single compact fluorescent flood light bulb... And battered GM shares slid yesterday yet another 15 percent to $1.86, not quite enough to buy a gallon of gasoline