1.0 link 148988 <![CDATA[Whom Will He Choose?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-carnoy/whom-will-he-choose_b_148988.html Obama's choice for Secretary of Education will be important. For the first time since the early 1970s, we may have an opportunity to improve the educational system where it is now least effective, in large urban and poor rural and semi-rural school districts.

Obama knows this. His campaign platform spelled out an ambitious program to invest in expanding early childhood education, using tuition offsets and higher starting salaries to recruit highly qualified young people into teaching, reforming teacher education so...

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