PolicyGuy

Monday, May 21, 2007


A Little Language in the Policy World.
Noted without much comment from the May 9 issue of Education Week:

"A major goal of Education Sector is to provide independent analysis of policy issues, while AEI takes conservative stands on issues, particularly in foreign policy." (Emphasis added)

From the article (Scholars: Equity, Competitiveness Agenda Can Be at Odds), we learn that the co-director of Education Sector (Andrew J. Rotherham) and the director of education policy studies for AEI (the American Enterprise Institute) have identified teacher unions as opponents of No Child Left Behind.

Sounds like "independent" analysis to me. So why is "conservative" in opposition to "independent"?

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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