Obama’s other shameful ed school friend
OK, this time I’m talking about Linda Darling-Hammond. In a letter to the editor of the New Republic, she responds to Josh Patashnik’s article on Obama’s education plans. (He responds to the response here.) What LDH doesn’t address is this brilliant insight from an astute education policy analyst,* included in the original article, about why the Senator’s selecting Darling-Hammond as a top education advisor is worrisome:
She has spent almost two decades trying to kill Teach for America. It seems like a strange choice for him.
Instead she and Patashnik get into a boring discussion of the nuances of Obama’s pay-for-performance plan. What a missed opportunity.
* Yes, me.
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April 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Wow! Thanks for alerting us to Darling-Hammond serving as Obama’s education advisor! Can you imagine her helping to select the next US Sec’y of Education? Or even being chosen herself as the next Secretary of Education, and setting national policy?!??! Omigosh!
That provides EVEN MORE evidence of just how foolhardy it would be to have national education curriculum standards! Thanks for bringing that to our attention!
April 17th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
More disastrous than Bush’s selections? Ha. Ho.
There would be some great value in having a president who obviously relishes learning, reading and culture, even if he put Attila the Hun in as Education Secretary.
Just getting rid of those who think we can pay-cut our way to education success would be an improvement.