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Can't Stop the Tide: Same Sex Marriages and Gay Vice Squads
The culture wars dictate that there must be losers. In the battle over same sex marriages, the losers try to dictate what others must do. In this case, those folks who love each other and who want to solidify lives together. We're not talking civ...
ROLAND BURRIS: THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS BLACK MAN BLUES
Burris is no idiot. In fact, he's crazy like a fox. Roland Burris is right in line with the other "grabbers" in Chicago and Illinois politics. Burris sees an opportunity and he's going for it. What else would a 71 year old man want from a politica...
BLAGOJEVICH AND BURRIS: WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN?
This past week I tuned into the press conference given by Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois when he named Roland Burris to be his choice to fill President-elect Barack Obama's recently vacated U.S. Senate seat. The scene played out like a comic o...
WILL THE REAL SECRETARY OF EDUCATION PLEASE STAND-UP?
So, what will Arne Duncan do as President-elect Barack Obama's Secretary of Education? Like Obama, Duncan has been known to straddle the middle of the road.George Lucas's Edutopia proclaims::Arne Duncan has a type of personality that Obama seems to ...
Why All the Fuss (About the New Secretary of Education)
As the last article that we posted around the selection of the new secretary of education, Barack Obama's choice in a chief of America's educational system will be hotly scrutinized. Obama is playing his true intentions close to the vest largely to ...
Uncertainty on Obama Education Plans--By Sam Dillion
(from The New York Times, Sunday, December 14, 2008)As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to announce his choice for education secretary, there is mystery not only about the person he will choose, but also about the approach to overhauling the nat...
Who Will He Choose?--By DAVID BROOKS
As in many other areas, the biggest education debates are happening within the Democratic Party. On the one hand, there are the reformers like Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee, who support merit pay for good teachers, charter schools and tough accountabi...
The New Secretary of Education: Colin Powell or Linda Darling-Hammond?
How important is the Secretary of Education? Some would say, "Not very."The last two chiefs of education, Ron Page and Margaret Spellings, were noted more for pissing off the teachers' unions rather than for any policies that they authored or advanc...
Savoring the Undertones and Lingering Subtleties of Obama’s Victory Speech ~ By BRENT STAPLES
[from http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/savoring-the-undertones-and-lingering-subtleties-of-obamas-victory-speech/] Like many great orations, Barack Obama’s victory speech on Tuesday night was deceptively simple. As powerful as it was t...
Who Will Obama Pick as Secretary of Education? ~ By Kathleen Kingsbury
[reprinted from http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1857195,00.html]As Barack Obama begins to assess his potential picks for his cabinet, Secretary of Education is not one of the positions you would necessarily expect him to focus on first. But ...
THE TOP THREE: EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES OVER THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS
What an election season this has been. We are faced with major challenges over the next eight years. Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama have made their closing arguments for why they each should be elected. Neither, I believe, has made ...
