Topic: Arne Duncan

Pamela Geller has reported that one of her blog readers' child, an 11th grader, has received an application from Organizing for America, which is the post election site for Suggested reading for the high school course is Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals ...
The head of the nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization, fearing a loss of momentum since the 2008 election, plans to use the group's annual convention to get people "off the couch" and renergized to fight back against a tea party ...
The National Science Board--the body that oversees the National Science Foundation--is so worried about the state of math and science education in U.S. schools that it sent President-elect Barack Obama a letter this week that lays out six ways to improve. But ...

The $3.4 Billion Man

When we spoke to Education Secretary Arne Duncan several months ago, he promised that there were going to be " more losers than winners" when the administration announced which states would get the first round of grant money from the Obama administration's ...
Obama ed secretary, former Chicago schools CEO Duncan facing questions about admissions callsRevelations that President Barack Obama's top education official kept a log of calls from powerful people trying to get students into top Chicago high schools when he ran the massive ...
Education proposal broadens focus beyond math, reading, to `well-rounded education' President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to "Reading and math are important, but so are social studies, ...
Duncan says furor over Obama speech 'silly' in face of problems facing US educationThe furor surrounding President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the nation's schoolchildren is " just silly," his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education ...
Profiles of new Cabinet secretariesProfiles of the Cabinet secretaries confirmed by the Senate Tuesday. _Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been superintendent of schools in President Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago since 2001. While Duncan has never been a teacher or school principal, ...