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Diane Ravitch on what's right with being wrong
Date: 05/17/2010
The educational reformer talks to Slate about what she now sees as her big mistakes on school reform. Whatever you think of Ravitch, who was for many years a key thought leader among conservatives, and a big backer of No Child Left Behind (which she now repudiates), it's so rare to see someone of her stature admit forthrightly that she was wrong. Excerpt: [Ravitch:] You know, I've always had a ...
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Transparency Remains Elusive
Date: 01/26/2010
Barry, I agree with you on the fact that most Americans don't like government 'secrecy' and in many respects the vote in Massachusetts clearly reflected a total disgust with the way Washington is operating - especially with health care reform. As you correctly pointed out, this whole health care process has been a nightmare - made worse because of decisions by the Pres ...
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The Massachusetts Election in Perspective
Date: 01/20/2010
Even though polls were pointing in this direction, I still feel stunned today by Republican Scott Brown's defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley in yesterday's special election here in Massachusetts. Stunned because I had deep personal respect for Ted Kennedy . Stunned because people bought the "I'll rise above politics" line Brown toted. And stunned because the symbolic tenor ...
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Brown wins!!!
Date: 01/20/2010
Whoa ! I didn't think he'd be able to pull it off! So far it's 52 to 47 in the one of the most liberal states of the union. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat is now in the hands of a Republican because of health care "reform." Don't you just love the irony? The Associated Press called the race for Brown as the Republican held a 53 percent to 46 percent edge over Coakley with more than 70 percent of p ...
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Massachusetts Senate Race post-mortem: a progressive failure
Date: 01/20/2010
Congratulations to Senator-elect Brown - in the end, he was a better candidate and ran a better campaign against the hapless Martha Coakley, who thought she could coast on Kennedy-Obama coat-tails into office. A single statistic explains all - @marcambinder notes that "Coakley had 19 events after the primary through Sunday; Scott Brown had 66." And more than anything else, the election outcom ...
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We Tried to Warn Obama...But He Wouldn't Listen
Date: 01/20/2010
The defeat of the Democrats choice to succeed Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate is being treated as though there is a decided shift of mass opinion to the Right in the U.S. But it is the Obama Administration, not the people who supported him in 2008, which moved to the Right--in the name of being pragmatists or realists-- in the process emptying their own agenda in regard to health care, ...
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As the nation remembers the Senator, be inspired by these Ted Kennedy quotes taken from his long career as a public figure.