Bees really dislike having their hive disturbed and that's obviously true of universal-pre-school advocates, too. The Pew-backed advocacy squad has picked Steve Barnett of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) as their designated hit-man to go after me and my new book. At a Fordham-hosted event last week, he didn't actually hit me (or even bare his teeth) but he made clear that he and his team don't like the book one bit, and now he has posted an amplified version of his grievances on the NIEER website [PDF]...Read it here.