Standardized tests are not the answer. I know, I graded them.
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama's "Race to the Top" initiative promotes an accountability in education that links teacher evaluations with student test scores. While many will point to the potential problems this poses for the classroom, there's something else to think about. This position exhibits considerable confidence in the results returned to students by the standardized testing industry. Full Story | Top |
Not-So-Robust Public Option
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:02 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- The public option was always a compromise for serious supporters of health-care reform, who -- like Barack Obama when he was running for the Senate in 2003 -- knew that a single-payer "Medicare for All" system was what America needed to provide health care to everyone while controlling costs. Full Story | Top |
J Street, Obama, and Israel
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:28 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- I spent yesterday afternoon at the J Street conference, the meeting of the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobbying group that was founded last year. (A piece that I'd written on J Street and AIPAC appeared in Mother Jones in August.) Full Story | Top |
Hillary 2016?
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - Hillary Clinton did not need another man stealing her thunder. Last week, John Kerry earned headlines for convincing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to agree to a run-off election. The Senate's top man on foreign affairs looked more like the secretary of state. And naturally, political observers wondered where was the secretary of state? Full Story | Top |
Lessons for the White House from the Doctor Fix Debacle
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - The day after White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's Clintonesque plan to triangulate and divide Republicans and doctors failed a major newspaper published this headline: "Democrats Lose Big Test Vote on Health Legislation." The title was so fair and balanced many media obsessed White House advisers could have attributed it to Fox News. Yet, it was the New York Times that captured in a well-written, fair and subtle story the depth of the challenge the White House faces in its push to enact major health care reform legislation. Full Story | Top |
Letters to the editor
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - On child abuse and the courtThank you for publishing, "Child abuse: when family courts get it wrong," in the Oct. 11 issue. For years, distraught mothers who complained about unfair custody decisions were dismissed as "disgruntled litigants." The up-to-date research has now established that custody courts are failing to protect battered mothers and their children because they are using outdated and discredited practices. Full Story | Top |
An American decline would undermine global security
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - The great recession, mounting debt, military burdens, overconsumption. From New York to Beijing to Paris, there is talk, sometimes jubilant in tone, that the United States is on the decline. Some have even said that it's about time. Full Story | Top |
I'LL PASS ON 'OPTING OUT'
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:58 pm PDT
Ann Coulter - The Democrats' all-new "opt out" idea for health care reform is the latest fig leaf for a total government takeover of the health care system. Full Story | Top |
THE NEW ROBBER BARONS COULD DEEPEN THIS ECONOMIC HOLE
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:29 pm PDT
Cynthia Tucker - Wall Street's masters of the universe are a shameless bunch, their egos swelled with a sense of entitlement that would make the old railroad robber barons blush. Their predations are largely responsible for the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, but they don't get it. Full Story | Top |
How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige. Full Story | Top |
Vaccine Supply and the Public Option
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - My internist told me he is now using the technique he learned many decades ago in the military, when supplies of vaccine were short and they had to split doses. I wouldn't even think of asking. But I did ask my rheumatologist, since rheumatoid arthritis is one of those things that makes getting the flu worse. He would have been happy to give me a flu shot — I'm talking regular flu here, not the swine kind — but he was out. Full Story | Top |
Don't Replay the '70s
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - The Left is ecstatic about the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll, which claimed a surge in public support for the so-called "public option," wrapped in the (insincere) rhetoric of "choice" and "competition." The poll asks if the government should "create a new health insurance plan to compete with private insurance plans," and 57 percent agree. Happy days are here again for liberals. Full Story | Top |
OBAMA'S REAL DEATH PANELS
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:58 pm PDT
Ted Rall - NEW YORK--Shortly after 9/11, George W. Bush secretly signed two executive orders. Both violated basic constitutional protections as well as U.S. obligations under international treaties, yet both carried the force of law. Full Story | Top |
GAY MARRIAGE THREATENS ESTABLISHMENT OF BOTH PARTIES
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:58 pm PDT
Maggie Gallagher - The Rev. Anthony Evans stepped up to the podium at Stand for Marriage D.C.'s rally last Sunday with a message for D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray: The black church will no longer partner with politicians of any race who work against its interests and its values. Full Story | Top |
Government by Holiday Inn Express
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - You've seen those commercials in which an airline pilot, or surgeon, or nuclear engineer is giving expert advice only to acknowledge eventually to this nonplussed listeners that while he is not actually a fill-in-the-blank, he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Do you ever get the feeling that we are getting Holiday Inn Express government? Full Story | Top |
CONSTITUTIONAL TINKERING OPENS DOOR TO ORTEGA RE-ELECTION
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:58 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Little attention has been paid recently to Nicaragua. "Only right," you may well respond. "After all, that tiny, troubled country in Central America became only relatively important when the Marxist Sandinistas took over in 1979 -- becoming temporarily the 'second Cuba' in the hemisphere." Full Story | Top |
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