[National Review] If you want to know why our educational establishment is so dysfunctional -- especially in the matter of reforming the institutions that give such grievous disservice to the poor and the black -- you have to understand the attitude that regards calls for an emphasis on science and technology as some sort of subtly racist reflex, and how that line of thinking is rooted in a self-interested resource competition in which specialists in African-American studies, among others, are likely to lose out. "A Nation at Risk" may not have produced an actionable agenda for education reform. But what is being offered as an alternative?
