Thanks to Will Richardson for the tip!
Arne Duncan is a darling of the charter school movement, Eli Broad, the right-wing Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, anti-union "Democrats" and I kid you not – Hooked-on-Phonics.
President-elect Obama eagerly awaits recommendations on nuclear proliferation from Billy Mays, Ron Popeil and the ShamWow guy.
Alfie Kohn says, “In education, parody is impossible.”

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I shudder to see Duncan’s agenda for education reform. Come on O’Bama get a clue about what education needs to change. Ask a teacher, not a basketball buddy. We might as well have kept the same Sec of Ed. It will just be more of the same. Evidently, he didn’t get my letter. http://school20.siglersite.com/2008/11/06/dear-mr-obama/