{"id":357604,"date":"2010-02-24T07:32:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/24\/education-where-the-bar-ought-to-be\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T07:32:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T12:32:16","slug":"education-where-the-bar-ought-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/357604","title":{"rendered":"Education: Where the Bar Ought to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/23\/education_where_the_bar_ought_to_be_229917.html\" >Education: Where the Bar Ought to Be \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Bob Herbert, New York Times<br \/>Deborah Kenny talks a lot about passion  &quot;&rdquo;  the passion for teaching, for reading and for learning. She has it. She wants all of her teachers to have it. Above all, she wants her students to have it.Bob Herbert Ms. Kenny has created three phenomenally successful charter schools in Harlem and is in the process of creating more. She&apos;s gotten a great deal of national attention. But for all the talk about improving schools in this country, she thinks we tend to miss the point more often than not.There is an overemphasis on &quot;the program elements,&quot; she&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/23\/tea_party_movement_will_flame_out_229955.html\" >Tea Party Movement Will Flame Out \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Mark Schmitt, American Prospect<br \/>Michele Bachmann speaks at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference. (Flickr\/Gage Skidmore)As the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) overtook Washington this past week, the cheering for Dick Cheney, the sessions promoting &quot;nullification&quot; (the concept that states can opt out of federal laws, last heard from John C. Calhoun in the 1830s), and the angry rants about ACORN and homosexuality were a reminder that the idea that there is a &quot;conservatism&quot; that is measured, responsible, decent, and worthy of the word is a bit of a myth. As the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/22\/picking_the_best_of_bad_choices_on_iran_229902.html\" >Picking the Best of Bad Choices on Iran \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/23\/rumbling_over_rahm_emanuel_229929.html\" >Rumbling Over Rahm Emanuel \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast<br \/>Enter your email address:Enter the recipients&apos; email addresses, separated by commas:Message: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex Brandon \/ AP Photo \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLeslie H. Gelb&apos;s call for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to be reassigned spurred a circle-the-wagons reaction from pro- (or perhaps even anti-) Rahm forces. Gelb sifts the fallout for clues. When you write that the president of the United States should replace his chief of staff, someone will fire back. So it was that Rahm Emanuel apparently struck back at my piece last week on The Daily Beast&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education: Where the Bar Ought to Be Bob Herbert, New York TimesDeborah Kenny talks a lot about passion &quot;&rdquo; the passion for teaching, for reading and for learning. She has it. She wants all of her teachers to have it. Above all, she wants her students to have it.Bob Herbert Ms. Kenny has created three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}