Linda Darling-Hammond declared that she does not want to be Biden’s Secretary of Education. She prefers to stay in California, where she is president of the State Board of Education and leads the Learning Policy Institute.
In 2008, she was Obama’s education spokesman during the campaign, and it was widely anticipated that she would be selected as Secretary of Education. But “reformers” (DFER) launched a campaign to torpedo her nomination and pushed for one-off their own: Arne Duncan. Editorials appeared miraculously in major newspapers denouncing her. And we got stuck with RTTT.
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I would like to see our friend Denisha Jones be considered. She is brilliant, humble, though confident, without arrogance. She has a gift for communicating complex issues in ways that people understand and also develop care and compassion for students and communities.
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Denisha Jones is a great pick. We need to put her on our short list & send them to the transition team.
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What a great idea!
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Sad and disappointing, but understandable. Sen. Michael Merrifield
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Denisha is an excellent candidate! Also Michael Hynes. He’s got all the right instincts.
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The American Federation of Teacher and their leader, Randi Weingarten played a major role in the Biden campaign, Town Halls, phone banks, an intense social media presence, I’m sure the decision will undergo Weingarten Scrutiny, I mused I muse about candidates in my latest blog
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I’ll take the job
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I want to stuff DFER, Trump, and all his enablers in a huge garbage disposal, turn on the water and flip the switch.
In a minute or two, all the noise they’d make while the disposer was turning them into little bitty particles and washing them into the sewer would be gone.
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Too bad. I hope LDH’d influence in picking the next secretary in not, once again, undermined by DFER and the charter school lobby.
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I’d be happy to take it on.
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Peter Downs of St. Louis would be a great choice….He wrote “Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform” …Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the highly publicized school reform movement already have been tried out in St. Louis with disastrous results. Along with demonstrating the failure of school reform prescriptions to improve education, the experience of St. Louis demonstrates that the ideological premise of the reform movement, that a focus on providing opportunities for private profit-taking will necessarily improve schools, is both wrong and conflicts with the ideals of democracy, accountability, and justice.I admit….of course he would be an unlikely choice…..
But when a Mayor Slay and a Senator Danforth did not like him responding successfully to the people who elected president of the st. louis public school board—to put a stop to the corrupt practices in St. Louis……They asked for help from the 8 republican members of the state board of education, and had them take over the schools…..democracy was eliminated for more than a decade….so those who were smarter than the voters could start opening charter schools and other “choices”…….ask Jeff Bryant if he thinks Peter Downs would be up to the job…….
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Would you, Diane, take the job?
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LDH’s reasoning seems sound. I am not familiar with the latest on her, but what’s her take on charters and testing? She is not exactly against CC: she wrote in 2014
Thus, the Common Core standards in California are an engine to drive better educational practice, not a hammer to threaten children, educators, and schools with failure.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-for-a-new-accoun_b_5351475
In the article Diane cites in this post, It’s interesting to read about the child poverty levels in various CA counties (20+%) and realize that in Memphis, it’s almost double (40+%).
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Well that was lasted less than 24 hours LDH just said yes. take a look at this article: Obama-era personnel allover this group. Seriously, we need to push back, and hard.
https://edsource.org/2020/latest-news-in-brief/641583?fbclid=IwAR3MZJ3hs5CQpgOLNPtSTbrvCq3maQiKlndMzr6qYPPkTVRFOJpjZVMI_5g
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Linda DH is leading the transition team on education. She has asked not to be considered as Secretary of Education.
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