In higher
proportions than the rest of the nation, Californians support the Common Core academic standards and they back pay increases for teachers — unless they are told how much the average teacher earns; then they don't, an Education Next senior editor reported Thursday.
... [Americans] have become a
nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous
of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion
of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies
of the past and strive more against the enemies
of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium
of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity
rests, and turn some fair
proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects
than material progress and the game
of party politics.