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• 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

• No Child Left Behind Sets Impossible Goals

  Yet another of the Bush administration’s chickens has come home to roost, this time in the arena of early education. The No Child Left Behind law has begun creating problems for schools that are not unlike the balloon payments dogging many homeowners. Read More... Posted Oct 13 2008, 03:20 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: education, law, reading, no child left behind, schools, bush administration, NCLB, math, tests, economy, early education laws, requirements, balloon payments, impossible goals, failing schools, proficiency, scores, testing, federal law, improvement, elementary schools, student, homeowners, early education