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Check out this book, Tony...
Market Education, the Unknown History by Andrew Coulson. I will discuss it in the next book extract, but you may want to get the information from the horse's mouth. It offers a genuinely workable solution to this mess.

posted by arGee on January 29, 2007 at 11:35 AM | link to this | reply

It is amazing, but at the root of it, I suspect, is the selfishness
... of those who can afford better education, as you say. The powerful ones don't care. The only way something like this could perhaps be improved is if it became a powerful grass-roots movement with enough lobbying power to effect real change. Of course, this change would be reversed within a relatively short time if the people then took their eye off the ball...

posted by Antonionioni on January 25, 2007 at 9:19 AM | link to this | reply

What gets me, Tony...
Is that after all this, the NEA still has credibility. How can this be? If an outside enemy had somehow done this to our children, we would be at war. It tells you a bit about the power of the media.

posted by arGee on January 24, 2007 at 10:29 AM | link to this | reply

Great piece.

posted by Antonionioni on January 23, 2007 at 3:42 PM | link to this | reply