Failing Up
By promoting our least effective teachers to leadership positions — as Harvard has done with Michael Ignatieff — we can ensure all students have access to a world-class education.
In a resounding win for meritocracy, Michael Ignatieff has a plush new academic appointment.
Ignatieff, of course, is the Canadian journalist and historian who in 2011, as party leader, presided over the Canadian Liberal party’s most humiliating political defeat ever. Under Ignatieff’s guiding hand, the Liberal party was decimated, losing more than half its parliamentary seats and relinquishing its official status as opposition party. Ignatieff even lost his own parliamentary seat to a rookie Conservative candidate.
If ever there was a floundering politico, Ignatieff surely fits the bill.
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