Education activist and the author of Feel-Bad Education Alfie Kohn explains why poverty is the root problem in modern education, where standardized testing fails, why driving up test scores do not reflect education but do reflect affluence, why those pushing corporate education “reform” do not understanding what the experience of education really is, smart ways of actually […]

Eliot Spitzer returns to politics, Mark Halperin harasses him on Morning Joe, new revelations on the FISA Court and how the FISA Court is making new common law in secret. On The Better Half: Rand Paul’s co-author and Congressional aid is a southern secessionist, Random Rush  and your calls and IMs. And keep the conversation […]