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With the financial crisis bearing down, Obama's education initiatives are expected to be more about tinkering than bold change.
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chronicle.com - 11/5/2008
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Obama's Possible Candidates for Education Secretary By PAUL
BASKEN Washington If history is any guide, Barack Obama...
will spend several weeks chugging through higher priorities on his presidential to-do list before choosing an education secretary. And ...
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Obama's Possible Candidates for Education Secretary
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Obama is expected to go slow on education
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With economic recovery as his priority, Obama may “tinker” with education in his first year, reports the Wall Street Journal. Obama says he supports NCLB, but not in what form. He may let Congress take the lead in working out a consensus on reauthorization. A man named as a possible secretary of education criticized Obama’s call for alternatives to standardized testing. Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City schools, expressed skepticism about using alternative testing. “If you water down accountability, if success or failure depends on the eye of the beholder, you run ...
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