OK, this time I'm talking about Linda Darling-Hammond. In a letter to the editor of the New Republic, she responds to Josh Patashnik's article on Obama's education plans. (He responds to the response here.) What LDH doesn't address is this brilliant insight from an astute education policy analyst,* included in the original article, about why the Senator's selecting Darling-Hammond as a top education advisor is worrisome:
She has spent almost two decades trying to kill Teach for America. It seems like a strange choice for him.
Instead she and Patashnik get into a boring discussion of the nuances of Obama's pay-for-performance plan. What a missed opportunity.
* Yes, me.
