The Boston Globe, August 11th, 1998
Maybe, before assigning "The Federalist" to prospective teachers, John Silber, chancellor of Boston University, and the dean of BU's School of Education should have assigned it to themselves. Had they done so, Silber and the dean, Edwin Delattre, might have thought twice about pushing to include a dictated passage from Federalist 10 in the teacher certification test given in April. The problem is not that the material is outdated. Much of "The Federalist" is written elegantly and argued powerfully. No. 10, James Madison's warning against "factions," is the most famous. More troubling is the ro...
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