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The Conservative War On Education
continues apace, with charters blooming everywhere, high-stakes testing
cementing its grip on classrooms, and legislators and pundits wondering
what we need those stupid liberal arts colleges for anyway. (Isn't
college about job prep? Who needs to know anything about art history,
anthropology or ancient Greek?)
Amid
the din, there's a worrisome trend: liberals keep affirming right-wing
talking points, usually without realizing that they're even right wing.
Or saying things like, "The education of our children is a non-partisan
issue that should exist outside of any ideological debate."
The
hell it is. People who say stuff like this have no idea what they're
talking about. The education of our children is a core cultural and
political choice that reflects the deepest differences between liberals
and conservatives -- because every educational conversation must start
with the fundamental philosophical question: What is an education for?
Our answers to that question could not be more diametrically opposed. READ MORE
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