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Winner, Winner Turkey Dinner: Secretary @ArneDuncan Wins Award!

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December 1, 2014

Congratulations and condolences to Arne Duncan for winning the 2014 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award! Will he come by to accept the award? 🙂

The blog Cloaking Inequity seeks to illuminate popular and dominant ideologies that purport to foment equality and close the achievement gap. Often well-intentioned citizens support educational policy that claim to create a more inclusive and better quality education system— unbeknownst (or beknownst) to them— these policies magnify and hide inequality by utilizing an elegant, yet false, bureaucracy of data, research and media promotion.

For the past two years, Cloaking Inequity has held a contest for the Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award. The past winners were discussed in the posts Teach For America: 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year and Vote for 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award

This year, the 2014 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award was voted on by nearly 1,000 readers of Cloaking Inequity. The award is based on Cloaking Inequity posts from calendar year 2014. With 51% of the vote, the 2014 CloakingInequity.com Educational Policy Turkey of the Year award goes to Secretary Arne Duncan. For all posts that mention Arne Duncan click here.

In the post Please Vote!: 3rd Annual Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award #Thanksgiving I nominated Arne:

For being absolutely incompetent. Need I say more? See Arne Duncan Hails Vergara Decision and Uncovering Lies and Damn Lies in Arne Duncan’s Graduation Rates and Los Chistes: @ArneDuncan Explodes the Public Education “Struggle Bus” and A Top Ten of Duncan’s Inanity: Obama’s Basketball Buddy Drops Ball on Ed

Here is my custom made ode to Arne…

Bird is the word. Congratulations Secretary! Also check out the Moms Against Arne Duncan (MAD) Facebook group here.

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Congratulations and condolences to Arne Duncan for winning the 2014 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award! Will he come by to accept the award? 🙂 The blog Cloaking Inequity seeks to illuminate popular and dominant ideologies that purport to foment equality and close the achievement gap. Often well-intentioned citizens support educational policy that claim to…

8 responses to “Winner, Winner Turkey Dinner: Secretary @ArneDuncan Wins Award!”

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[…] have the DFERs to thank for Arne Duncan? As report by Mike Simpson at Big Education […]

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December 25, 2014 at 10:00 am

[…] I remembered Julian Vasquez Heilig’s 2014 Thanksgiving contest and Duncan’s winning the award for biggest turkey. […]

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Arne Duncan In My Mother’s Back Yard? | deutsch29

December 25, 2014 at 10:00 am

[…] I remembered Julian Vasquez Heilig’s 2014 Thanksgiving contest and Duncan’s winning the award for biggest turkey. […]

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Ed News, Saturday, December 6, 2014 Edition | tigersteach

December 7, 2014 at 12:49 am

[…] Magazine was third garnering 8%. You can read about the award and view some additional results by clicking here. NB: The “picture” of Duncan that leads off the article is worth a peak. […]

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Michael P Dominguez

December 2, 2014 at 12:57 am

In (dis)honor of all of the havoc wreaked by Peer Assistance and Review I hereby change Arne’s name to PARne Duncan for his support of the wholesale destruction of teaching as a profession.

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Julian Vasquez Heilig: Secretary Arne Duncan Wins Contest for 2014! | Diane Ravitch's blog

December 1, 2014 at 5:00 pm

[…] Vasquez Heilig conducts an annual poll seeking to identify the “Turkey of the Year.” This year’s winner, hands down, is Arne Duncan. This was an unusually impressive victory because in the listing of candidates, Duncan’s name […]

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Monty J. Thornburg, PhD

December 1, 2014 at 3:32 pm

Well, right now he’s the top bureaucrat in education, … and, bureaucrats use “street level” behavior; i.e., pick and choose what’s important, what’s not, … His leadership supports “competition” between schools, school districts, supports charters, and supports monetizing the value of children. He supports turning children into commodities. In such a system some children are more valued than others- duh! Thus, inequity grows. He supports diminishing the role of those who are really at the center of the education endeavor (teachers) and they rely on a leader who supports equity in order to do their job with integrity. He wants teachers competing with each other using a false assumption that standardized texts work to evaluate teachers fairly. He really deserves the “Turkey of the Year” award!

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1. Marilyn
  
  December 1, 2014 at 7:21 pm
  
  Nicely expressed! Thank you.
  
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