Half an hour before my three hour policy class. We’re going to talk about education policy today. Just made a spanking new slide on Michelle Rhee and her tenure proposal. I’m very curious what the students will say about it.

I have read all sorts of goodies on the web/papers/blogs in the past day. Some quick links:

David Brooks writes about how the economic downturn will impact on the middle class (and totally jacks some ideas of mine from an earlier post).

Jeremy Teigen finds that military service does not give candidates an edge in elections. Veterans are not more likely to win elections than non-vets. However, candidates still continue to tout their war experience, so perhaps it has an impact when parties initially chose their candidates.

Some book reviews of books that I’m interested in. Harry loved Grading Education. Elizabeth hated Mother on Fire. Kakutani says the new Gladwell book is a "no, duh."