Obama’s “Way-to-Go, Brownie!” Moment?
Trial balloons lofted in the Washington Post suggest President-elect Obama is about to select Joel Klein as Secretary of Education. If not Klein, then draft-choice number two is Arne Duncan, Obama's backyard basketball buddy in Chicago. Full Story »
Posted by Dale Penn
Obama is dangerous on education. He seems to have bought into privatizing and corporatizing the schools with charter schools that focus on test taking instead of education. Charter schools remove democratic public control of the schools. Teaching to take tests creates occupation robots, not creative members of society.