Five Questions for Arne Duncan
On Thursday, May 2nd, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be speaking to a luncheon that is part of the Education Writers' Association seminar at ...
5 Favored Topics
Arne Duncan, charter schools, Education Issues...
2 Preferred sources
Education Week, The Washington Post
Duncan Demagogy
In the world of ed politics, there are straight shooters and there are those who will say anything, depending on their audience.
Arne Duncan Makes Pitch to Expand Early-Childhood Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says he thinks the time has come for a sweeping expansion of early-childhood education programs, like the one ...
Arne and Karen Duncan's Secret Log
Duncan & Daley used the city's elite schools as patronage. During Arne Duncan's reign as Mayor Daley's hand-picked schools CEO, he kept a "secret ...
Candidates vie for UFT support, with varying degrees of success
Six mayoral candidates attended the United Federation of Teachers mayoral debate Saturday during the union’s spring conference.
The revolution is here
I've written a lot about growing resistance to high-stakes standardized testing and other corporate-driven school reforms.
What the "best and wisest" parents want for their own kids...
Back in 2011, I was taken by this open letter from Arne Duncan and his wife Karen, to their two children, Claire and Ryan on the opening of the ...
Extreme Common Core rhetoric clouds serious debate
The Common Core State Standards initiative was started with bipartisan support. But new and often nonsensical criticism from right-wing Republicans ...
U.S. Department of Education Goes "Back to School" as Part of Teacher Appreciation Week
U.S. Department of Education (ED) officials from across the country went "Back to School" today, shadowing teachers across the ...
Failing the Test
It’s a terrible time for advocates of market-driven reform in public education. For more than a decade, their strategy—which makes teachers’ careers ...