Originally Posted by Val
And while your choice of words above was poor, I agree with your sentiments about Burris and Ravitch.
I accept your critique. I considered saying "experimenting" (as their NPE newsletter uses this word to describe efforts undertaken by Gates). However "experimenting" may bring to mind legitimate research studies conducted with informed consent of participants, IRBs, etc. Therefore I described their activity as "playing" with education policy...

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the problem, I think, isn't that people AREN'T taking Ravitch and Burris seriously so much as that they ARE.
Agreed!