Post by Moses on Jan 15, 2006 23:17:42 GMT -5
"Progressive" Edu-policy:
[Comments on their policy by Susan Ohanian]
In a nutshell here you see why you can't trust progressives: they spew unexamined rhetoric through a lens of hubris. When self-proclaimed progressives quote Chester Finn and Education Trust for support of their ideas, you know you're in trouble--and that they are intellectually crippled and morally bankrupt. This rhetoric sounds like refried Nation at Risk.
NOTE: According to their website, "The American Progress Action Fund is the sister advocacy organization of the Center for American Progress. The Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world. The Action Fund is also the home of the Progress Report."
Rapid response. They were a little too rapid with this half-baked communique. I put in some of the hot links, even though most lead to nowhere. For the rest, go to their website at the url www.progressreport.org.
Of the "Experts" listed at the Center for American Progress, only one mentions education as an area of expertise: Matthew Miller
Areas of expertise: economic policy, education, health care. A Los Angeles-based Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Miller, with a degree in law, is a nationally syndicated columnist appearing in more than 50 leading newspapers. He is a monthly columnist for Fortune.
So from whence comes the expertise to make the following recommendations?
Here are the bios of the authors of this report. Do you see any connection with schools (other than attendance at some)?
Judd Legum is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and co-editor of the Progress Report. He has a bachelor's degree in public policy analysis from Pomona College and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Judd is also a member of the Maryland Bar. While in law school, he was a research assistant for former White House chief of staff John Podesta. His writings have been published in numerous publications including The Nation, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The DC Examiner, Salon.com and American Prospect Online.
Faiz Shair is Assistant Editor for the Progress Report. No bio available.
Nico Pitney holds a degree in philosophy from the University of California Santa Barbara, and studied economics and international relations with the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University. At UCSB, Nico was an editorial staff writer for the campus paper, chaired the Student Forum on the Middle East, and coordinated field operations for several local races. Prior to joining the Center, Nico developed web content for the youth arm of Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign.
Mipe Okunseinde is a research assistant at the Center for American Progress. Since graduating with honors from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 2004, she has interned with the Monmouth County Democrats in New Jersey and served as a Base Vote Organizer in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. While at Harvard, she served on the Editorial Board of the daily paper, writing and editing her own signed op-ed pieces as well as staff editorials.
Christy Harvey is the Director of Strategic Communications at the Center for American Progress and co-editor of both The Progress Report and the blog, ThinkProgress. She is the cohost of a morning-drive radio program, The Bill Press Show, which broadcasts nationwide on Sirius satellite radio each day from 6-9AM. Christy is also regular guest on The Al Franken Show on Air America. She’s been published in In These Times, the Nation, Michael Moore’s The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader and The American Prospect Online. Before joining the Center, Christy spent five years at the Wall Street Journal as research director for Executive Editor Al Hunt. She is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.
Is there a teacher in the house? An education policy analyst? Maybe this is the difference between progressives and conservatives: Progressives don't even bother to put anybody with educationese in their background on their panel of experts.
Friends like this makes one feel pretty d**ned desperate.
[Comments on their policy by Susan Ohanian]
In a nutshell here you see why you can't trust progressives: they spew unexamined rhetoric through a lens of hubris. When self-proclaimed progressives quote Chester Finn and Education Trust for support of their ideas, you know you're in trouble--and that they are intellectually crippled and morally bankrupt. This rhetoric sounds like refried Nation at Risk.
NOTE: According to their website, "The American Progress Action Fund is the sister advocacy organization of the Center for American Progress. The Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world. The Action Fund is also the home of the Progress Report."
Rapid response. They were a little too rapid with this half-baked communique. I put in some of the hot links, even though most lead to nowhere. For the rest, go to their website at the url www.progressreport.org.
Of the "Experts" listed at the Center for American Progress, only one mentions education as an area of expertise: Matthew Miller
Areas of expertise: economic policy, education, health care. A Los Angeles-based Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Miller, with a degree in law, is a nationally syndicated columnist appearing in more than 50 leading newspapers. He is a monthly columnist for Fortune.
So from whence comes the expertise to make the following recommendations?
Here are the bios of the authors of this report. Do you see any connection with schools (other than attendance at some)?
Judd Legum is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and co-editor of the Progress Report. He has a bachelor's degree in public policy analysis from Pomona College and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Judd is also a member of the Maryland Bar. While in law school, he was a research assistant for former White House chief of staff John Podesta. His writings have been published in numerous publications including The Nation, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The DC Examiner, Salon.com and American Prospect Online.
Faiz Shair is Assistant Editor for the Progress Report. No bio available.
Nico Pitney holds a degree in philosophy from the University of California Santa Barbara, and studied economics and international relations with the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University. At UCSB, Nico was an editorial staff writer for the campus paper, chaired the Student Forum on the Middle East, and coordinated field operations for several local races. Prior to joining the Center, Nico developed web content for the youth arm of Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign.
Mipe Okunseinde is a research assistant at the Center for American Progress. Since graduating with honors from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 2004, she has interned with the Monmouth County Democrats in New Jersey and served as a Base Vote Organizer in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. While at Harvard, she served on the Editorial Board of the daily paper, writing and editing her own signed op-ed pieces as well as staff editorials.
Christy Harvey is the Director of Strategic Communications at the Center for American Progress and co-editor of both The Progress Report and the blog, ThinkProgress. She is the cohost of a morning-drive radio program, The Bill Press Show, which broadcasts nationwide on Sirius satellite radio each day from 6-9AM. Christy is also regular guest on The Al Franken Show on Air America. She’s been published in In These Times, the Nation, Michael Moore’s The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader and The American Prospect Online. Before joining the Center, Christy spent five years at the Wall Street Journal as research director for Executive Editor Al Hunt. She is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.
Is there a teacher in the house? An education policy analyst? Maybe this is the difference between progressives and conservatives: Progressives don't even bother to put anybody with educationese in their background on their panel of experts.
Friends like this makes one feel pretty d**ned desperate.