But policymakers,
pundits, and others suffering from PLDD who control our increasingly centralized
education system focus almost exclusively on economic utility as the criteria for
making education policy decisions.
Unlike some Bush administration officials and
pundits in Washington who are trumpeting the progress
made in rebuilding Iraq's primary and secondary
education system since a U.S. - led war toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein, the new Iraqi minister of
education is concentrating on the challenges ahead.