Here's a combo that made me pause. Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton and Arne Duncan -- on tour this month and next -- for "Listening and Learning." Really?
It turns out that as far away as they may be on many political issues, they share a hunger for education reform and a belief in the necessity of closing the achievement gap along racial and socioeconomic lines. They've even agreed that this is a "civil rights" issue. According to Sharpton, it was President Obama who suggested this tour in May when they were at the White House to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
And the attitude is amazing. Imagine: Politicians acknowledging that their answers may not be the only answers -- at least in this case. "All of us agree that we have to do something, even though we don't always agree on how to get it done," Sharpton told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "It's the kind of bipartisan spirit we didn't see with healthcare, but we need to see with education."
Ain't that the truth.
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