Comments on: Helping http://www.quickanded.com/2008/10/helping.html The Quick and the Ed is an education blog published by Education Sector, an independent think tank in Washington D.C. The Quick and the Ed offers in-depth analysis on the latest in education policy and research. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:14:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.quickanded.com/2008/10/helping.html/comment-page-1#comment-232 Anonymous Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:28:00 +0000 http://www.quickanded.com/wordpress/?p=1308#comment-232 <i>In short, their job--their only job--is to help people, all day long, from the crack of dawn until late at night. Most of the people they help are teachers and parents.</i><br/><br/>From the piece that Carey alludes to, which curiously describes the subject as a former intern: "The assistant press secretary stops at Yeager's cubicle armed with talking points. Yeager and her staff should refer to employees as having been 'separated,' not 'terminated,' she instructs." <br/><br/>Sounds like their "only job" includes spin. In short, their job–their only job–is to help people, all day long, from the crack of dawn until late at night. Most of the people they help are teachers and parents.

From the piece that Carey alludes to, which curiously describes the subject as a former intern: “The assistant press secretary stops at Yeager’s cubicle armed with talking points. Yeager and her staff should refer to employees as having been ’separated,’ not ‘terminated,’ she instructs.”

Sounds like their “only job” includes spin.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quickanded.com/2008/10/helping.html/comment-page-1#comment-230 Anonymous Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:57:00 +0000 http://www.quickanded.com/wordpress/?p=1308#comment-230 The comment was embedded in a blog entry about bloated positions at district offices. If it wasn't mockery, that wasn't at all clear.<br/><br/>The Critical Response Team is made up of phenomenal people who work to no end - literally - to solve everybody's problems. They're the least deserving of the potshots people want to take at this administration. The comment was embedded in a blog entry about bloated positions at district offices. If it wasn’t mockery, that wasn’t at all clear.

The Critical Response Team is made up of phenomenal people who work to no end – literally – to solve everybody’s problems. They’re the least deserving of the potshots people want to take at this administration.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quickanded.com/2008/10/helping.html/comment-page-1#comment-227 Anonymous Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:47:00 +0000 http://www.quickanded.com/wordpress/?p=1308#comment-227 Is that the whole quote? Cuz what I see is "Critical Response Team" in quotation marks. I don't see any mockery of the individuals who might do that job. Is that the whole quote? Cuz what I see is “Critical Response Team” in quotation marks. I don’t see any mockery of the individuals who might do that job.

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