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Friday, October 19, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: View from right field: Smarick wants an end to urban school systems

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: View from right field: Smarick wants an end to urban school systems:


View from right field: Smarick wants an end to urban school systems

I don't agree.
Is there any real difference between calling for an end to "urban school systems" and calling for an end to urban public schools?  I don't think so.

Andy Smarick, who works for right-wing think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and the Fordham Institute, tweeted me yesterday, saying that I was being unfair to him for equating his call for the destruction of