Advice from Obama’s Inner Circle
Now that President Obama is in office what is he going to do about school funding, NCLB, special education and teacher training (to name a few)?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice given by folks who are now part of Obama’s inner circle, Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, Linda Darling Hammond, Head of the Obama Education Policy Working Group and Jon Schnur, Co-chair of the Obama Presidential campaign’s Education Policy Committee.
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“The [special education] system struggles and is unsustainable”
Miriam Kurtzig Freedman Attorney, expert, and author, Miriam Kurtzig Freedman has spoken on education law and strategy in 45 states.
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“Too often education policy is dictated by opinion and ideology instead of research”
Kathleen McCartney is the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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“It is impossible not to imagine tight budgets for colleges and schools”
Scott Jaschik is the editor and one of the three founders of Inside Higher Education.
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“If education is the civil rights issue of the 21st century, than it should be treated as such”
Marlon Unas Esguerra is a Special Education teacher at New Design High School in New York City. He’s also a poet, writer and DJ.
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“The need for far-improved assessment”
Monty Neill is deputy director of Fair Test, a Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit that works to advance quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools.
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“Support for teachers and assessments”
Thomas Payzant is a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to that, he served as superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.
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“Rethink education policy to involve things beyond school”
Paul Tough is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America.
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“Remember the ABCs: acknowledge, build, change”
Renee Moore is an English instructor at the Mississippi Delta Community College.
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“What is the fundamental role of education in a democracy?”
Kris Guitierrez is a professor of Social Research Methodology at UCLA.
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