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• Education Secretary Talks Elongated School Year

  President Obama's education secretary might have a hard time selling his new plan to kids, but parents should be jumping on board.  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has floated the idea of extending the school year, positing the idea that the reason American kids fare poorly in comparison to other nations is because China, India and the like send their kids to school more days out of the year. Read More... Posted Mar 04 2009, 10:33 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: education, schools, learning, daycare, obama, Jeanne Sager, Arne Duncan, a nation at risk, school year, school improvement, elongated learning, education secretary, school week

• Arne Duncan: Dunce or Great Pick?

  Honeymoon? What honeymoon? People have been burning up the web debating the choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration, but not make any policy.  Meanwhile, not nearly as much as been said about Obama's choice for the crucial position of Secretary of Education. Maybe that's because, like me, people don't know what to think of Arne Duncan. Read More... Posted Dec 23 2008, 12:04 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: education, no child left behind, Harvard, chicago, early childhood education, public school, obama, test scores, failing schools, Secretary of Education, teachers’ union, parental involvement, Arne Duncan, Palast, Greg Palast, education reform, teach to the test, after-school programs, safe schools, school reform