washingtonpost.com - 12/5/2008
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BETTING ON SCHOOL REFORM
Political Animal —
... with both sides. But he put Darling-Hammond in charge of his education policy transition group. So it's not unreasonable to predict that he'll go with an incrementalist as secretary. Yet why do I have this feeling that a reformer will get the nod? Wishful thinking perhaps. Also a sense that anyone who picks Rahm Emanuel for his chief of staff and Larry Summers for his economics adviser is not looking to play it safe policywise. But another piece of evidence is the similarity between this Washington Post editorial today and ...
The EduTransition
Matthew Yglesias —
... The Education Secretary job hasn’t yet gotten much attention, but with the principles for the national security and economic teams in place people are starting to focus on it. And for whatever it’s worth, let me add my vote to Paul Glastris and ...
Dan Brown: "You're Either With Us or You're With the Status Quo": Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... and the Washington Post editorial board ran eerily similar pieces on Friday about the two rival camps within the education reform movement. ...
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The AP reports that Democrats want Obama to take a more active role in the economic crisis. “Obama has sidestepped some policy questions by saying there is only one president at a time. But the dodge is wearing thin. ‘He's going to have to be more ...
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