Thursday, December 11, 2008

Say it's not so, O!

Continuing with my references elsewhere this morning, Greg Palast atHuffPo has a good handle on why Joel Klein and Arne Duncan would not be good choices for Secretary of Education: READ IT! And then send a message at change.gov.

It's no coincidence that the nation's worst school systems are run by non-experts like Klein and Duncan.

Obama certainly knows this. I know he knows because he's chosen, as head of his Education Department transition team, one of the most highly respected educators in the United States: Professor Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University.

So here we have the ludicrous scene of the President-elect asking this recognized authority, Dr. Darling-Hammond, to vet the qualifications of amateurs Klein and Duncan. It's as if Obama were to ask Michael Jordan, "Say, you wouldn't happen to know anyone who can play basketball, would you?"

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