Tag Archives: Rick Hess
Rick Hess on Obama plan: “That’s Really All He’s Got”
The entire blog post is worth reading. Here are the first two paragraphs: When I heard the makeup of the President’s double-secret, anxiously awaited plan to create millions of jobs and make America happy again, I unaccountably found myself flashing on the scene in “Knocked Up” where Seth Rogen meets Katherine Heigl. The overmatched RogenContinue Reading
How moral crusading makes us look stupid
A recent blog post by Rick Hess nails it: One of my least favorite things about education is how eagerly we turn sensible discussions into bizarrely polarizing moral crusades. Aided by competing, mindless invocations of “it’s for the kids,” we manage to turn otherwise sensible discussions about school accountability, teacher evaluation and pay, school choice,Continue Reading