The Gadfly's attempts to maintain ("The problem with nuance," March 1, 2007) that it has not done a flip-flop about the control of education in the various states by federal bureaucrats, e.g., its present approval of the NCLB Act, is much like a woman arguing that she is only partly pregnant. In short, some situations are so obvious that no amount of ardent denial that they do not exist is possible.
Patrick Groff
Professor of Education Emeritus
San Diego State University