6 responses to “Breaking News: Sec. Duncan and Sec. Bennett are Kissing Cousins”

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   Discussing Testing, Accountability, and Community-Based Reform @CALSAfamilia | Cloaking Inequity

   May 13, 2015 at 1:30 pm

   […] Then, after George W. Bush left office. The nation had “Hope” that there would be “Change” in our education policy. Did Barack Obama go a different direction? (See Breaking News: Sec. Duncan and Sec. Bennett are Kissing Cousins) […]

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   The “War Report” Radio Show: False Promise of NCLB for Public Education | Cloaking Inequity

   April 24, 2014 at 10:25 am

   […] Did President Barack Obama and Secretary Arne Duncan go a different direction than President George W. Bush for education? Are Republicans or Democrats bigger supporter of corporate education “reformers”? Are the Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) actually Democrats? (See also George H.W. Obama’s education platform: Republicans should be flattered and Democrats ashamed? and Breaking News: Sec. Duncan and Sec. Bennett are Kissing Cousins) […]

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   Obama’s approach to education in the 2014 State of the Union | Cloaking Inequity

   January 29, 2014 at 11:57 am

   […] The reality of Obama’s approach to education during the past five years is that his policies are not forward-thinking, but rather a recycling of old ideas. […]

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   HispanEduca

   September 1, 2013 at 3:31 pm

   As we all know (or I hope we all know), Obama/Duncan/Bennet’s education policy have at least one element that is clearly a filter, a segregationist movement to provide higher education opportunities to only a few students from financially well-off famlies. And that is no other than a national standardized tests.

   I am not so sure the “parent-choice” policy has anything to do with improving education opportunities to poor students, but offer the best education business opportunity to others.

   But listen, we will not achieve anything at all by just pointing out the “treason” these politics have committed against the poor and minorities. The poor must be educated, trained, to be the ones who shape education policy, whichever way they want to. Not manipulating them like pro-charter schools business people are doing; using them as bait.

   Our aim must be to put in practice ASAP an education policy advocacy plan, starting ground-up, so every single parent of every single ethnicity becomes familiar with and knowledgeable in what takes to be an education advocate and lobbyist. Yes, lobbyist. Because what we need is an army of parents who, from California to Florida and from Maine to Alaska, become education lobbyists, not just “active in school” which will not happen until they know what is going on behind education doors.

   Lourdes Pérez Ramírez
   President
   HispanEduca

   HispanEduca is a nonprofit organization, founded and registered in the state of Florida by Hispanic educators and parents.

   Our mission is to educate and empower Hispanic parents, especially from low-income families in education lobbying so they have the opportunity to influence and develop education policy that help increase Hispanic/Latino education attainment levels.

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   Patricia Kokinos

   August 31, 2013 at 10:34 pm

   Yes, the Obama administration now appears to have been the Republicans’ “smart bomb,” planted to go off at exactly the right time to prevent any movement whatsoever and to secure their stranglehold on “change.” No wonder they campaigned so hard against Hillary, who was the only one in 2008 to say NCLB needs to be repealed and that she wanted to work with teachers/parents collaboratively to create education change. Duncan is holding the office we all thought would go to Linda Darling-Hammond, naïve and hopeful as we were that Obama, a progressive Demo, or so we were led to believe, would “do the right thing.” Silly us!

   Even the flaming liberals on Common Ground were duped, so all I can say is “Nice work, Karl Rove.” Duncan has been the shill for some kind of “bipartisan” approach to “closing the gap” since his arrival, jumping right in with those a friend of mine calls the “corporate and philanthropic colonialists.” Thanks for showing us precisely how “bipartisan” Obama-Duncan really are and how very far they are from anything real educators would support. I am pleased to see that five or six years in to my own attempt at telling the truth, more and more people are picking up on the real needs of kids, teachers, parents, and schools and are beginning to speak up AND follow the money.

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   Monty J. Thornburg, Ph.D.

   August 30, 2013 at 8:29 pm

   I think your analogy is true and very troubling at the same time.
   Most Democrats, I think, only want to talk about poll tested ideas. For example, they lack the “courage” to speak out about poor people or egalitarian education, e.g., the value of public schools- even if they believe in them. They will speak for the “middle class” and for “education choice” in a muddled and safe manner. Thus, Arne Duncan appears to mimic Wm. Bennett. In the current political climate one is never quite sure where many democrats including the President stand on poverty and education!
   At least with Bill Bennett and the Republicans there’s no longer any ambiguity, as there once was.
   I received a packet of postage stamps from a friend today, marked “courage.” They are of Rosa Parks, sent, because my friend knows of my growing respect for her. She did speak up unambiguously her entire life. She spoke for the poor, against racism, against apartheid and segregation, and, she spoke always for equality and economic justice. However, remarkably, the politicians managed to muddle the real meaning of what she stood for!
   Read: Theoharis, J. (2013) “The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” to understand how even an iconic figure who stood up can have the meaning of courage muddled.

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