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Here is a review of a review of Going Rogue: An American Nightmare… [h/t LGM]
I confess I anticipated the possibility that Fish would review Going Rogue, as he has fashioned himself in his Times blog into a more loquacious Ann Althouse, but I hoped it wouldn’t be quite like this. But now, there it is, [...]

Going all the way back to Reagan’s Nation at Risk report in 1983, the economic miracle of the Asian ‘Tigers’ and their rigid educational structures have long occupied the minds of conservative pols and venture philanthropists, and the on-going push to substitute continuous standardized assessment for actual learning finds its intellectual roots in the perceived [...]