Nick Anderson reports in WaPo that the center-right education expert “now renounces many of the market-oriented policies she promoted as a former federal education official. . . . She stoutly defends teachers unions, questions the value of standardized test data and calls the president’s affinity for independently operated charter schools ‘puzzling.’” Her new book sounds like it will be worth a look. But her notion that what the country really needs is rigorous national standards seems naïve to me. (I’ve criticized her take on standards-vs.-choice before.)