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Article: Teddy's Rightful Heir.(The Take; Politics)(Alan Khazei )
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- Newsweek
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- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Jonathan Alter
Alan Khazei should get his seat.
Ted Kennedy's death got plenty of coverage, but the battle to replace him in the Senate has been overshadowed by elections this week in New Jersey and Virginia. While all four candidates in the Dec. 8 special election in Massachusetts are liberals in the Kennedy tradition, only one is carrying forward his reform ideas--and those of President Obama--on the most important domestic issue of the 21st century.
It's not health care--the politicians will work something out soon enough. It's education. If we don't tuck in our shirts and pay attention to educating the workforce of the future, we're ...