Partisanship

One of the hardest things about running for public office is dealing with partisanship, no matter what party you identify with politically. There are “fundamentalists” on each side of the political spectrum.  The truth, however, is that most of us cluster...

How Do We Judge Quality?

Fox News posted an article recently that said many more people are using online ratings in order to choose a doctor.  Apparently 59% now say these ratings are either somewhat important or important when choosing a new doctor.  Similarly, The Guardian recently had an...

Seeing Unions Through The Eyes of Teachers

This past weekend at Educon 2.6, Kevin Jarrett and I hosted a session entitled “How Unions Can help Foster Education Reform”.  This was prompted by a question I have had for a long time, which is whether the public view of unions aligns teachers more with...