Defending Linda Darling-Hammond for Secretary of Education

NY Times columnist and conservative, Republican David Brooks offered a scathing attack against the prospect of Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond becoming US Secretary of Education. Today's online version of the Times printed our reply at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/lweb07brooks.html#Our response appeared in the Times, but here's the unedited version:David Brooks got it

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