Some Questions

Ever since Socrates, teachers have this habit of mind: we think in the form of questions. The Democratic National Convention has posed a few questions for us.

Why would someone who “is working independently on the campaign of Senator Obama” turn his blog over to McCain’s educational advisors the very week of the Democratic National Convention, when the Obama campaign is so focused on establishing their message for the pivotal weeks of the fall campaign? The logic of neo-liberal educational politics is a bit hard to fathom at times, and this appears to be one of those occasions.

And speaking of the blogging of McCain’s educational advisors, why is their discourse indistinguishable from the teacher-bashing and anti-union rhetoric of the Education Challenge Event sponsored by the Wall Street  financed and led “Democrats for Education Reform” and the Joel Klein-Al Sharpton Education Equality project? But perhaps this is not all that surprising, in light of this reality, not to mention this one.

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