What a refreshing Gadfly is on offer this lovely August week. We begin with an essay from Checker and Marci, who write about David Whitman's forthcoming book (to be released tomorrow, in fact), Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism. (Psst.... Did he say paternalism? Indeed he did.) Then we progress to a short bit by me that attends to several findings from the new Education Next-Harvard survey??of adults' attitudes about education. And then we really get into it, with five recommended readings that merrily skip among characters??such as??Al Sharpton and Gloria Estefan.
And what about that podcast? Stafford makes her sparkling debut this week. And steady cast members Mike, Rick, and Amber turn in yet another brilliant and incisive performance.