Comments on: Margaret Spellings’ Plan is Fraught with Contradictions http://www.erelevant.net/2006/09/27/margaret-spellings-disingenuous-administration-mouthpiece-or-ignorant-bureaucrat/ A blog about electronic marketing, culture, and life on the digital frontier. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:32:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Sam Jackson http://www.erelevant.net/2006/09/27/margaret-spellings-disingenuous-administration-mouthpiece-or-ignorant-bureaucrat/#comment-98 Sam Jackson Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:56:38 +0000 http://www.erelevant.net/2006/09/27/margaret-spellings-disingenuous-administration-mouthpiece-or-ignorant-bureaucrat/#comment-98 Oh, and to keep it old school one more time: someone should go reread what The Carnegie Commission / Council on higher education did back from '70 onwards... It had some good points and suggestions for reform that I think could have been adopted more fully than they were. Still stuff to learn from '68-9, as my Columbia riots paper taught me. What's more, Students for a Democratic Society was reborn last January. We have a chapter here on campus now. They say they're nonviolent now, but, hey... another throwback. Oh, and to keep it old school one more time: someone should go reread what The Carnegie Commission / Council on higher education did back from ‘70 onwards… It had some good points and suggestions for reform that I think could have been adopted more fully than they were. Still stuff to learn from ‘68-9, as my Columbia riots paper taught me.

What’s more, Students for a Democratic Society was reborn last January. We have a chapter here on campus now. They say they’re nonviolent now, but, hey… another throwback.

]]> By: Sam Jackson http://www.erelevant.net/2006/09/27/margaret-spellings-disingenuous-administration-mouthpiece-or-ignorant-bureaucrat/#comment-97 Sam Jackson Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:49:43 +0000 http://www.erelevant.net/2006/09/27/margaret-spellings-disingenuous-administration-mouthpiece-or-ignorant-bureaucrat/#comment-97 The speech was so ridiculous. It was one of those times--which have been coming perhaps more frequently in these last 6 years than in the previous 8?--where I just throw up my hands and curse the world. Not that I could really compare; my clearest memories of the Clinton years were of things like the time in 4th gradel I made many, many terrible jokes about Monica Lewinsky while reading 'Election' ...with my mom. Everything you've hit upon here is spot on. When I look at what the woman said I can only hope and pray it's a matter of her being 'out of touch' rather than... serious. Whether I'd rather have an out of touch secretary of education over a psychotic one is a question worthy of some debate, I suppose. The speech was so ridiculous. It was one of those times–which have been coming perhaps more frequently in these last 6 years than in the previous 8?–where I just throw up my hands and curse the world. Not that I could really compare; my clearest memories of the Clinton years were of things like the time in 4th gradel I made many, many terrible jokes about Monica Lewinsky while reading ‘Election’ …with my mom.

Everything you’ve hit upon here is spot on. When I look at what the woman said I can only hope and pray it’s a matter of her being ‘out of touch’ rather than… serious. Whether I’d rather have an out of touch secretary of education over a psychotic one is a question worthy of some debate, I suppose.

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