"PUBLIC EDUCATION IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR." Erin Aubrey Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, October 11th, 2006

This is the first time that I have seen the word "war" used to talk about education. Is this the war for education or the war against it? Or the war within it? But, for those of us involved in edu, it certainly feels like a battle zone. Whether you're a part-time or full-time student, a grad student, a t.a., an r.a., a fellow, a teacher's aide, a teacher, a lecturer, a professor, or a staff member working at a school/univeristy, you know there's a fight going on. A big one. A sustained one. And the odds against us...

Who is fighting whom and for what? Against what? What is at stake?

Does anybody know?