Links and Thoughts: Education

Most of my posts for the time being will be focused on education. Some links:

From what I know thus far, I like this guy: click here.  See Ezra Klein's interview with him here. We need more folks in congress with experience in reforming education on the ground level.

Diane Ravitch's new book, in which she goes back on just about everything she's ever championed in education. Without having read it (yet) I would venture this: education policy is no place for experimenting with ideology (it has been, largely, over the past few decades of the culture wars), but that does not mean that certain models that came of Ravitch's group are not worth following through with. Probably because things like charter schools and school choice (note, I'm not saying school vouchers), are less about ideology than good sense.

The New York Times's education section has a number of newish articles of interest:

Protecting students against abuse.

Unintelligent white teachers.

NCLB: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's see what we can do. (Most notably, from Rep. Kline of Minnesota: “Starting with a blank piece of paper is absolutely the right process." Yes, please, by all means.)