Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Thursday named his six appointments to the reconstituted National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which advises the secretary on issues related to accreditation. The previous incarnation of the panel was disbanded by Congress as part of last year's renewal of the Higher [...]
Thanks to a friend for passing along this recent video of Arne Duncan and his new math and science guy Mike Lach (yes, from Chicago) talking about science and technology. Check it out if you're a STEM geek (or if you just want to see Lach's new haircut from' [...]
School Denies Suspending Student For Jesus Drawing
NPR
The school district said the second-grader
was never suspended and that officials followed "well-established
protocol."
Arne Duncan at Grady Atlanta Journal Constitution
In
his whirlwind tour of Atlanta Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan
seemed [...]
Got to love this…my book on the front page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Very enterprising of her to score an early copy…hmmm, wonder if I can get Arne Duncan to do the same….and oh yes, please tilt the title more toward the camera…
story below:
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State board approves [...]
PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN
THE WEEK AHEAD: Sunday, Dec. 13, through Saturday, Dec. 19
(All times are Eastern Standard Time)
In past statements, US education secretary Arne Duncan has lauded Florida's education data system as one of the nation's models.
This week, he pointed to the Sunshine State as one of the leaders in the effort to measure the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs by tracking teacher success in the [...]
Hey, now. The NEA has a flashy new website design -- and a handy guest appearance from Arne Duncan to go along with it. (Things like this are bound to happen when Cunningham is gone this long.)
…which is why Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top initiative matters so much. My commentary running today in Education Week (which I believe I’m allowed to reproduce below):
The Hole in ‘Race to the Top’
By Richard Whitmire
It seems almost peevish to criticize U.S. Secretary [...]
STOP THE PRESSES!!! New York is finally getting into the Race to the Top competition, thanks (again) to the courage and leadership of Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein. It is well worth your time to read the speech Mayor Bloomberg gave yesterday with Arne Duncan at his side. Here’s the [...]
Jay Mathews with an important and spot-on article about how – and how not – to fix failing schools. In short, SHUT THEM DOWN!
This year's hot education topic is fixing what is broken. The first sentence of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's July 22 speech was: "Today, [...]
STOP THE PRESSES!!! New York is finally getting into the Race to the Top competition, thanks (again) to the courage and leadership of Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein. It is well worth your time to read the speech Mayor Bloomberg gave yesterday with Arne Duncan at his side. Here’s the [...]
That's a phrase my father likes to use. And it's a very good fit for how the administration is treating the embattled but incredibly important and effective DC voucher program. From the Washington Times:
It is disgraceful the way Education Secretary Arne Duncan dodges and weaves while back-stabbing [...]
Updates on the Race Education Optimists
State by state roundup.
Race to the Top Versus the Money Chase Ed Next Blog
This enormous cash nexus that swamps anything any business
entity has contributed creates a huge problem for Arne Duncan.
Some West Michigan lawmakers, educators lukewarm on state's race to make ... Grand Rapids Press
... US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has said he hopes to see, and the state House Education Committee has bills expected to come to a vote Thursday. ...
Who said:
"If you're going to do something, do it."
"I think there's a lot of scientific evidence that the status quo doesn't work."
"I just want to make this clear. We've never said charter schools are the magic answer."
"Frankly in education we're better at doing more things than we are stopping'" [...]
The U.S. Department of Education is shopping this Elementary and Secondary Education Act PowerPoint presentation to congressional aides this week, meant to lay out broad principles for renewing the law, now known as the No Child Left Behind Act. (Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave a good [...]
Carmel Martin looks like she might be about to fall asleep in this picture but the folks at EdWeek put the screws on Arne Duncan during a recent visit to EdWeek's Bethesda compound (Arne Duncan on NCLB," [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit to Education Week today, and spent an hour fielding questions from reporters about everything from No Child Left Behind Act reauthorization to the possibility of a second economic-stimulus package.
Duncan, who was accompanied by assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and [...]
Here's Arne Duncan's upcoming schedule of media events and photo ops -- though I can't manage to get excited about any of it.
Be assured there will be the usual mix of fear-mongering, repetition of talking points, and exhortation.
PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN THE WEEK' [...]
David Whitman writes speeches for Arne Duncan at the Department of Education. He’s written for numerous publications on a range of issues and he examined the ”new paternalism” idea and looked at the issue in his recent book.
But maybe he should be at the Department of the Interior? [...]
Arne Duncan said what we wanted to hear as early childhood educators and what we expected to hear last night. Duncan, the first Secretary of Education to ever speak at NAEYC, is definitely behind early education but, with so many other national issues it is easy to [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the fullest picture yet of his vision for a birth-to-8 education system in remarks yesterday at the opening of the annual meeting of the [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the fullest picture yet of his vision for a birth-to-8 education system in remarks yesterday at the opening of the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
In a wide-ranging speech that emphasized the importance of "raising the [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the fullest picture yet of his vision for a birth-to-8 education system in remarks yesterday at the opening of the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
In a wide-ranging speech that emphasized the importance of "raising the [...]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose education experience is firmly planted in urban ground, is continuing to reach out to rural folks to figure out how the reforms he's pushing will play out in the farther reaches of the country.
Nine rural superintendents, from Michigan, Texas, West Virginia, California, Mississippi, Kansas,' [...]
Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich, along with Arne Duncan were impressive on Meet the Press. Yes, they flubbed some lines indicating confusion about charter schools, curriculum, and international test scores and they spoke in phrases like "I was told ..., students are told" [...]
In Baltimore today, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the ultra-liberal Rev. Al Sharpton, and the Obama Administration's Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, continued their education reform road show. They visited three of the city's schools--a KIPP school, a regular old public school, and a neighborhood charter school--all serving [...]
