Arne Duncan, golden boy of education | The golden boy and the blob

IT IS hard to find anybody with a bad word to say about Arne Duncan, Barack Obama’s young education secretary. Margaret Spellings, his predecessor in the Bush administration, calls him “a visionary leader and fellow reformer”. During his confirmation hearings Lamar Alexander, a senator from Tennessee and himself a former education secretary, sounded more like a lovesick schoolgirl than a member of the opposition party: “I think you’re the ... Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - May. 10, 2009

the writer begins (the headline) and ends with an assumption that the biggest obstacle to reforming education are teachers' unions. the complexity of so many factors including but not limited to teacher competence, students' needs, changing demographics, teacher pay, parents' and political imput, are so short-changed here that the piece doesn't offer much light.

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