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Arne Duncan, the status quo and a teacher who never ate a bee
- 04-18-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Education Secretary Arne Duncan likes to say that people who support the status quo in public education are “part of the problem.” To wit: He said this month in an interview with the Star-Ledger in New Jersey: “What keeps me up at night is the historic lack of urgency, the acceptance of the status quo. We need to change. Anyone who is defending the status quo is part of the problem.” He told Wolf Blitzer of CNN in a January interview, “In a knowledge-based, globally competitive economy, we have to do so much better educationally, so anyone who’s defending the status quo, anyone who is saying we don’t need change is part of the problem.” In fact, he says it in a good percentage of his speeches and interviews. I don’t know who Duncan thinks is defending the status quo. (more...)
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