The Answer Sheet Archive: Education Secretary Duncan
Ravitch: 'A moment of national insanity'
Education historian Diane Ravitch writes: "The reality on the ground suggests that the corporate reform movement ... will set American education back, by how many years or decades is anyone's guess."
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Valerie Strauss
| March 1, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Diane Ravitch, Education Secretary Duncan, Guest Bloggers
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arne duncan, diane ravitch, gates foundation, president obama, president obama and school reform, race to the top, school reform, teachers
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The problem(s) with Obama’s 2012 education budget
President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan talk a lot about using “what works” in helping to improve public schools, but their proposed $77.4 billion education budget for 2012 unfortunately wouldn’t do that.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 14, 2011; 4:54 PM ET |
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Education Secretary Duncan, School turnarounds/reform
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2012 budget, arne duncan, budget, career and technical education, charter school funding, education budget, education funds, harlem children's zone, increase in education budget, obama 2012 budget, obama budget, president obama, race to the top, teach for america
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School board conferees get tough with Duncan
Education Secretary Arne Duncan got an earful from some attendees of a National School Boards Association conference.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 8, 2011; 10:20 AM ET |
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Education Secretary Duncan
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arne duncan, education secretary arne duncan, no child left behind, school board associations, school boards
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The VIVA Project: What teachers told Duncan
More than 150 public school teachers put their heads together to devise solutions to problems that most affect their profession. Then they got to do something unusual with their conclusions: present them to Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 3, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Education Secretary Duncan, Teacher assessment, Teachers
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Arne Duncan, The Answer Sheet, VIVA project, education, education secretary duncan, evaluation and teachers, performance-based evaluation, school, teachers
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Should Duncan have plugged Henderson for D.C. schools boss?
If Education Secretary Arne Duncan were sitting in the editorial board of The New York Times talking about education, do you think he would put in a plug for a specific candidate to be chancellor of the city's public schools?
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Valerie Strauss
| January 13, 2011; 5:47 PM ET |
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D.C. Schools, Education Secretary Duncan
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arne duncan, d.c. schools, d.c. schools chancellor, education secretary arne duncan, kaya henderson, mayor gray, mayor vincent gray, vincent gray
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Duncan: Arizona community college did what it could with suspect
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said today that the community college that forced out the suspect in the Arizona shooting rampage because he was disruptive did what it could in handling the young man, and he asked how the young man was able to get a gun.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 10, 2011; 6:31 PM ET |
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Education Secretary Duncan
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arizona community college, arizona shootings, gabby giffords, gabrielle giffords, giffords, jared lee loughner, loughner, pima community college, shooting suspect, the washington post
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