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Someone needs a hug

7.23.2008

I hope someone over at Education Sector gives a big hug to Kevin Carey, who is, judging by this post, in a foul mood, perhaps because he's trying unsuccessfully to make the case that one program at FSU (with which I was, as an undergraduate,??quite involved) successfully refutes affirmative action's problems, and that??America is??not currently besieged by all sorts of wacky educational theories and methodologies that were born in the 1960s and 1970s. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm??smack in the middle of Miles Gone By. I'm at the part where Buckley skis with Milton Friedman in Switzerland, just before he jets off to have tea with Maragaret Thatcher and right after he strangles 19 communist agents with his toes. Now, how to work this all into a blog post about education....

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