Another example of how the online news organizations are filling the void left by the corporate news media which are moving into pure propaganda, self-promotion, and entertainment services. So dense and intellectual that it took two people to write it, it almost takes two of me to comprehend it. To summarize, the pick of Arne Duncan seems to prolong the trend in education away from teaching kids to think, and toward teaching them that they better go along to get along. It is an excellent argument on the side of "liberal education", which has been steadily discredited at least since Sputnik, as opposed to "conservative education" which just uses Biblical princilples.