Big changes needed in America's schools, education secretary says

MLive.com by Julie Mack | May. 1, 2009 (News Report)

Saying "more of the same is not going to get us to where we need to go," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is promising sweeping reforms in American education over the next four years.

"This is an absolutely historic moment" with tens of billions of dollars being poured into preschool, the K-12 system and higher education to improve outcomes, Duncan said in a speech Thursday at a conference of the Education Writers Association.

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Posted by: Posted by Kristin Gorski - May 1, 2009 - 5:15 AM PDT
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Kristin Gorski
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 by Kristin Gorski - May. 6, 2009

Though brief, this article features some solid details on Secretary Arne's reform priorities and educational philosophies; Arne was speaking to attendees at the Education Writers Association conference in Washington, D.C. when he made these remarks this week.

I'm looking for a transcript of his entire speech and will post a link when I find it.

“I fundamentally believe we are lying to children and lying to parents” through the state assessment tests, he [Secretary Arne] said. “In far too many ... More »

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 6, 2009

The story echoes aspects of Duncan's speech. Unremarkable, but fair.

Teaching to take tests, demonizing teachers and schools that fail, privatizing schools to corporations, disempowering community school boards; are these improvements? Should they be core? Where is the philosophy?

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