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Mr. Secretary, listen to us teachers
- 05-24-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Today, an Oakland Unified science teacher-coach and 11 other teachers will get what they’ve been seeking for six months: the ear of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The dozen teachers will have a 30-minute teleconference with Duncan to state some of the views they’ve been making on the Facebook page Teachers’ Letters to Obama, which Anthony Cody of Oakland started six months ago out of frustration with the directions that Duncan and President Obama were taking in education. Cody’s hoping this will be the first of a series of dialogues with Duncan, whom he says needs to hear more from teachers in the field. Cody, who also has a column in EdWeek’s Teacher Magazine, posted an open letter to Obama last fall. That was followed up with 107 letters from teachers that were sent to the White House. They made it as far as the bowels of the Ed Department. (more...)
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