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THE EDITOR'S PAGE: Blowing Smoke
Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, No. 07 (March 2006): 482.
Bruce M. Smith
While the information that reaches me comes through a variety of media, it’s most often in a torrent of words. And because words can obscure as much as they explain it pays to ask hard questions. I always find it refreshing to come across an example of people using words honestly, paying serious attention to them and what they mean. Consider two samples I drew up from the media. First, the Florida Supreme Court struck down the state’s voucher program because it ‘violates’ the language of the Florida Constitution. Second, in a recent op-ed column, PDK executive director emeritus Lowell Rose uses choice words with simple and direct meanings --‘cynical,’ ‘sad,’ and in ‘bad taste’ -- to take on state legislators who sought to exploit sympathy for kids with autism to pass a voucher program.
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