Obama education secretary: unions should reconsider tenure, incorporate student acheivement in teacher evaluations and pay
Something that kind of went under the media’s radar last week was Arne Duncan’s July 2nd speech before the National Education Association convention. The annual gathering of the nation’s largest union was held from July 1-6 in San Diego, California. The Secretary’s address received some coverage from wire news services and California newspapers, but for what Mr. Duncan was saying, major newspaper coverage (i.e. NYT and WashPo) was noticeably absent. Continue Reading »
Just in case you thought Old Media wasn’t dead yet
It took several hours before the lovable losers in the mainstream media even realized that people in Iran might actually be a tad upset about the “election” last week. This came about because of a combination of a few things:
- The media was smart enough to realize right off the bat that Obama wasn’t picking up on the story, so they had no reason to play it up.
- The media also recognized how terrible it would look for the Obama Doctrine to show that even Iranians don’t see Ahmadinejad as a legitimate leader while Obama courts him as aggressively as better than he does with our actual allies like Germany and the UK.
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