Two enterprising gentlemen
Informed sources say the finalists to succeed Chris DeMuth as president of the American Enterprise Institute are Princeton’s Robbie George and Columbia’s Glenn Hubbard—youngish, brilliant, and dynamic, both.
Welcome, Amber Winkler, Ph.D.
Fordham is thrilled to welcome Amber Winkler to our ranks. As our brand new Research Director (see her bio), she’ll be overseeing Fordham’s vast research enterprise (and helping us produce sophisticated studies like this one). And she’s blogging too! We’re a boy band no longer.
McCain’s education team
Were you wondering who’s advising the presumptive GOP presidential candidate on education? We were. Now we know. And a pretty distinguished, if slightly predictable, group it is. (No, nobody at this address is part of it. And not a college president, local superintendent, or union goon on the list. Whew.)
In no particular order:
- Phil Handy, former chairman, Florida State Board of Education;
- Lisa Graham Keegan, former Arizona state superintendent;
- Virginia Walden Ford, executive director, D.C. Parents for School Choice;
- Townsend McNitt, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Education;
- Frank Riggs, former member of Congress and president, Charter Schools Development Corporation;
- Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts;
- Bill Hansen, former deputy secretary of education and senior managing director, Chartwell Education Group;
- Hannah Skandera, former California undersecretary of education;
- Gene Hickok, former U.S. undersecretary of education and senior policy director, Dutko Worldwide;
- Williamson Evers, Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
Their shepherd is former McCain staffer David Crane, now with Quadripoint Strategies. Now you know, too.
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