Everyone should go buy December's issue of American Prospect. It has a group of articles on the "Politics of Pre-K" in the current Dec 07 issue. One of the articles is about how Illinois became a model state in political coalition-building around early childhood education. This is pretty much what I am learning about and working on daily, and I found it to be a useful primer.
And since I know everyone as endlessly fascinated with me and my daily life as I am, I thought it might be interesting to share.
My boss was interviewed for the article, but they didn't end up quoting him directly. They do mention my organization.
I don't want to post it here, but I actually have an email version of the article, so let me know if someone wants to read it. The Prospect.org website requires that you have a subscription in order to read the whole article. Actually, I may commit a mass emailing, so people might get the article regardless of if they want it or not.
The issue of early childhood education is sort of more exciting than I initially thought it would be, if only because I get to read about it in the political magazines to which I'm addicted, and on which I waste so much money.
Unlike Fruit Femme, I don't view this as a marker of inaccessibility as much as I view it as a marker of my clear blogging superiority.