Hirin' and firin'

I don't always agree with Jay Mathews, but he has written an excellent column this morning. The crux of his argument is particularly well put:

Scalpel, meet ineffective federal programs

In the debate Friday night, Barack Obama responded to John McCain's idea of freezing federal spending by arguing that "the problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel." Then, on Face the Natio

The activities gap

Erin Johnson debates Neil McCluskey so you don't have to

Check out the latest battle over school choice in the comments section here .

Obama's values

Alyson Klein at Education Week 's Campaign K-12 picks up on my "scalpel " post to dig into the likely candidates for Barack Obama's knife, were he to win the pr

Courting common sense

A post from guest blogger and Fordham writer and researcher Emmy Partin .