Today, I want to set aside for
the moment philosophical arguments about the federal role, and talk about the design problems of NCLB, and why it's essential that any vision for reauth steer clear of repeating those.
Our task is to work hard, master the
arguments (scientific, ethical,
philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the
moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.