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Arne Duncan, Local Officials React To Oakland College Shooting

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Oakland City Council, Oikos University, Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, Jean Quan, Oikos University Shooting, Oakland, Larry Reid, One Goh Shooting, One Goh, Duncan, Oakland Shooting, Oikos, College News

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he was "saddened" on Tuesday, after learning of a deadly mass shooting at an Oakland college. "I was sadde...

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Occupying the Department of Education

Shaun Johnson | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Department of Education, High Stakes, Alec, Education Policy, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Duncan, Occupy the Doe, United Opt Out, Education News

No one's sleeping in a tent. No one is unwelcome. But it is turning various sites at and around the DOE into temporary outdoor classrooms.

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Feds 'Looking At' Cheating In Atlanta

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Standardized Test Cheating, Atlanta Public Schools, Department of Education, Atlanta Cheating Scandal, Arne Duncan, Cheating Scandals, Atlanta Schools Cheating, Education Department, Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal, Standardized Tests, Atlanta, Atlanta Schools, Duncan, Education News

ATLANTA — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday he has been in contact with the department's independent investigative arm about test...

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Social Studies Fail Again, With Help From Secretary Duncan

Shaun Johnson | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Standardized Testing, Social Education, Education, Social Studies, Education Reform, Ncss, Duncan, Arne Duncan, Education News

Mr. Duncan's basic understanding of what test-based reforms are doing to individual schools and school systems is, to borrow an Internet meme, an epic fail.

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Guest Column: Obama on Education -- A-Plus Values, F-Minus Policies

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Test, President Obama, Arne Duncan, Vedana Vaidhyanathan, Duncan, Central Falls High School, Waiting for Superman, Obama, Patrick Williams, Teacher, Pre-K, Charter School, Barack Obama, Race to the Top, Teach, Miriam Ebsworth, Education, Joshua Eisenstein, Innovation Districts, Value Added, Chris Weigant, Nclb, Standardized Testing, Teaching, Union, Rttt, Education News

Roughly once a year or so, I turn this column space over to a guest author. This usually happens when a point of view is presented to me either in pu...

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Lobbying Threatens Overhaul Of Student Loans

The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Loan Overhaul, Arne Duncan, Student Loans Duncan, White House Education, Lobbyists, Duncan, College Debt, Student Loans, Education Secretary, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loa...

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Vampires: Immortal, and Recession Proof

Janet Ginsburg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Werewolves, New Moon, Ginsburg, Vampires, Powers, Financial Crisis, Twilight, Duncan, The New Vampire's Handbook, Recession, Comedy News

Vampires would fare significantly better than most in our current crisis, because they have a few things most citizens do not: old fashion common sense, a fiscally prudent nature -- and a very long memory.

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Shouldn't Every Child Have an Education Like the President's Daughters'?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Test-Prep, Education, Post-Modern, Sidwell, Duncan, Obama, Tests, Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Politics News

The president sends Malia and Sasha to a post-modern school focused on the personalization of learning. Isn't it time that every family in the nation has the same opportunity?

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Breaking Free of the Urban Education Plantation

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Harlem, Geoffrey Canada, Educational Reform, Bruce Smith, Richard Gibboney, Obama, Duncan, Politics News

I don't think that Geoffrey Canada has found the "ideal intervention" for Harlem kids (he'd be on his way to Oslo to get that Nobel if he'd done that), but I think his model is the way to go.

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Obama and Duncan Champion Test Abuse

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Testing, Test Abuse, Obama, Duncan, Politics News

The President and his Secretary of Education want to use existing tests, willy-nilly, to evaluate teachers. They should both be ashamed.

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On Education, the Obama Administration Veers Off Course

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Obama, Statistics, Duncan, Assumptions, Data, Misinterpretation, US Education, Obama Education, Naep, Politics News

How can the Obama administration get it right in education when its data are all wrong and its assumptions about its faulty data are flawed?

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A Solution to the Education Dilemma

Deborah Emin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teachers Union, Duncan, Education, Politics News

This solution, which is simple, cheap and easy to do in every school, will insult or anger many people. But, I can tell you that this will work and will solve more problems than it creates.

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Looking Deeper Into Obama Education Pick's Accomplishments

Alexander Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arne Duncan, Education, Obama, Teachers, Schools, Barack Obama, Obama's Cabinet, Department of Education, Rod Paige, Duncan, Chicago News

Like Bush's Education Secretary pick Rod Paige, Arne Duncan comes from a big city with a success story that the national press failed to figure out was mostly a mirage.

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