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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Scott McClellan on NCLB Propaganda
DETAILS ABOUT NCLB EMERGE FROM MCCLELLAN TELL-ALL This Week in Education Blog by Alexander Russo Last week's publication of the former White House press secretary's tell-all book about his time with the Bush administration was dominated by allegations that White House officials misled the nation about the war in Iraq and the Valerie Plame CIA incident. Little noticed was a passage in the final chapter in which McClellan confesses that he "never had any idea" what phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations" meant, even though he repeated it from the podium hundreds of times http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2008/06/details-about-n.html
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