Fred Klonsky’s PREA Prez Blog

Sunday links.

Posted in Sunday links. by preaprez on December 23rd, 2007

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NCLB? Put a fork in it. NY Times front page left column above the fold. My favorite quote is from John Edwards, “You don’t make a hog fatter by weighing it.” I kind of like those country boys. Even when they are multi-millionaire personal injury lawyers.

Ed Notes ponders the similarities between Shankerism and Clintonism and its impact on teacher unionism, especially in NY’s UFT.

Diatribune: “If you needed a perfect example of the Bush Profiteer, you might consider the first “senior education advisor” he imported from Texas, the architect of NCLB himself.”

The Bush-packed National Labor Relations Board says unions don’t have a right to e-mail. Better put it in your contract. We did.

“My daddy marched with King,” says Mitt. The Boston Phoenix reports: The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” has upgraded the Romney claims from two pinocchios (”significant omissions and/or exaggerations) to four pinocchios(”whopper”).