Frank Bruni, who used to be a food critic at the New York Times but now writes op-eds, has a piece in the Times about Common Core. Or is it the Department of Education. Or teacher evaluations. Well, it's about public education. It's daringly called, The Education Assassins (that actually brings to mind Sarah Vowell's hugely funny, Assassination Vacation , which is probably not want Bruni wanted). Over at the Curmudgucation blog , the very funny Peter Greene takes Bruni's arguments apart, line for line. What's interesting is that Greene points out the half-truths to what Bruni says. This is a major irritant for me - just tell the WHOLE story, not just part of it if you have the courage of your convictions. I'm just going to pull out some great comebacks from Greene but do go read both pieces.