Meet Arne Duncan
February 10th, 2009 at 9:37 pm by Michele
An educational reformer who made the Chicago schools a “new US model”.
“Obama chose Arne Duncan for a reason, and part of that reason is the experimentation that Duncan has done in Chicago and his real attention to data and outcomes,” said Elliot Weinbaum, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. “Duncan’s willing to try new things and see if they work, hopefully keep the ones that do and drop the ones that don’t. I expect that experimentation to continue on a national scale.”
Here’s some old style “experimentation”. I don’t blame him much for keeping that hush hush, I would imagine that a few of these little Chicago thug athletes might deserve a few. I’ve seen that kind of thing in my dad’s old high school yearbooks, and wondered if it should come back in vogue.
But the other 538 credible allegations of child abuse by teachers that he swept under the rug for his own political benefit have me a bit troubled.
So we have a tax cheat as Treasury Secretary and a Public School official who intentionally ignored allegations of child abuse as Secretary of Education.
Maybe we can just exhume Josef Mengele and make him Surgeon General.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Nice premiere post, Michele. I’m still waiting for the Ayres appointment. Homeland Security most likely.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Great new look to the blog, comrades.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
This is the first i’ve heard about this stellar pick for Education Czar. Imagine if this were a Bush Administration pick… Would there be any more bandwidth left available by all the MSM Turds that would be feigning their outrage about Count Duku Duncan?!