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• “And Thank You for Choosing Harvard University!”

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  In most sectors of our economy, customer focus is paramount, as it should be in education, too. Customer focus could yield a more student-centric system through the development and dissemination of user-friendly “truth-in-education” information that helps students make “best-fit” choices regarding which education provider to select based on customer preferences [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:54am EST
  by Robert Pondiscio

• Great Job! Go Sit on the Bench

  Jay Mathews thinks Arne Duncan shouldn’t be the Secretary of Education.  In fact, he looks at recent Ed Secys Bill Bennett, Rod Paige, Dick Riley, Margaret Spellings and Duncan and asks why do we have the job at all?  Their best work for kids, in my view, happened when they were NOT [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:13am EST
  by Robert Pondiscio