Daily Howler - July 11, 2005

FROG-MARCHING KARL! Stupidity has been a pseudo-con value. But lately, it has spread to the left: // link // print // previous // next //

MONDAY, JULY 11, 2005

SO WRONG THAT YOU JUST HAVE TO READ IT: This morning, the New York Times prints an op-ed piece that’s so wrong that you just have to read it. For the past five years, Michael Petrilli was an official in the Bush Department of Ed. Some suburban school districts are now rebelling against certain provisions of No Child Left Behind—and Petrilli doesn’t like it. He argues that NCLB forces suburban districts to help their minority kids: