So entreats the New Republic's Jonathan Chait in his new TRB column. Chait compares Obama's current struggle to straighten a sclerotic school system to?the president's?earlier exertion to even out an entangled medical establishment.
Much like in health care, the education landscape features small pockets of innovation in a sea of inertia. And, as with health care reform, Obama's education goal is to rationalize the system by correcting the incentive structure.
Chait believes education reform is the ?second-biggest item of President Obama's agenda? and that all the haters?Chait names the NAACP, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the National Education Association, and Diane Ravitch?just need to back up off.
?Liam Julian