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Friday, August 19, 2011

Big Shock! Nationalization Sparks Culture War « Jay P. Greene's Blog

Big Shock! Nationalization Sparks Culture War « Jay P. Greene's Blog

Big Shock! Nationalization Sparks Culture War

Paul the psychic octopus sez: “Toldja so!”

(Guest post by Greg Forster)

With the shooting war that’s emerging betweeen Arne Duncan and Rick Perry over national control of education,some of the people who helped facilitate the movement toward nationalization are now saddened to see that creating a giant lever in DC that has the power to impact every school in the nation leads directly to a vicious, snarling political war over education policy, such that education can’t be discussed and debated dispassionately because culturally aliented partisans who don’t trust each other are all too busy trying to be the first person to