"Obama Ed Policy a Third Term for Bush" - Ravitch

by Clay Burell · 2009-02-23 07:00:00 UTC
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Arne DuncanDiane Ravitch is hardly a "liberal": Deputy Secretary of Education under Bush Sr., Hoover and Brookings Fellow, leader of Standards initiative in the '90s.

So when she reacts to the news that Linda Darling-Hammond was not offered a position in Arne Duncan's Department of Education by writing,

It looks like Obama's education policy will be a third term for President George W. Bush. This is not change I can believe in.

--maybe those dismissing "progressives" or "liberals" who say the same thing need to give her a listen.

(Update: But Mike and Fred Klonsky disagree. Me? I'm concerned about the signals coming from Duncan, for sure. All his talk of testing, KIPP, value-added data tracking, and TFA does seem to seat him at the Business Roundtable instead of Educators Roundtable. But Fred's right about the education money Obama - and the House Dems - pushed for in the Recovery Bill. Not a Bush-like thing, for sure.)

(h/t Parents and Teachers for Real Education Reform)

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