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Tuesday, August 29, 2006


Conservatives now offering "one of the worst ideas in education:" former U.S. Secretary of Education.
"DUMB liberal ideas in education are a dime a dozen," says Rod Paige, "and during my time as superintendent of Houston's schools and as the United States secretary of education I battled against all sorts of progressivist lunacy, from whole-language reading to fuzzy math to lifetime teacher tenure. Today, however, one of the worst ideas in education is coming from conservatives: the so-called 65 percent solution."

As an alternative, Paige recommends the 100 percent solution, about which I will have more to say in the next month or so--with any luck, in a major newspaper in the Midwest.

The mad professor of economics has a couple of thoughts on the 65-percent plan.

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