Edspresso's Identity Problem
April 9, 2007 02:09 PM
The last time I thought much about Edspresso, the Walton Family Foundation's education blog, was when the bloggers there claimed it's not an anti-union blog. No, seriously, that's what they said.
But the latest issue of "School Choice Activist," Edspresso's hard-copy sister publication, got me thinking about Edspresso again. The Activist, like Edspresso, is put out by the Walton-backed Alliance for School Choice, and the current issue includes this nugget:
"Perhaps the best testament to Edspresso's reach is the interest and ire regularly expressed by the education reform movement's opposition: the teacher unions."
So, which is it? Are Edspresso and parent company, Wal-Mart, anti-union? Do they support unions and support education reform but belive unions are opposed to reform? Wow! Talk about cognitive dissonance.
You have to love that logic: If the unions hate us we must be doing something right. But we're not anti-union.


