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No Ed Reform Cred for the Obama Administration
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D, Evelyn B. Stacey
9.28.2009

Last week's Washington Post editorial congratulates the Obama's administration for a quiet success toward reforming America's public schooling system. Unfortunately, congratulations are premature. Consider the actions behind the administration's calm, cool exterior. Each state is competing for $4.5 billion in exchange for greater federal control over education. Education Stimulus Watch Special Report by Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute cautions that "States' unprecedented budgetary challenges combined with the administration's prescriptiveness could lead to partially disingenuous proposals and the half-hearted implementations of promised reforms."
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A Follow-Up Question for Arne Duncan:What Does D.C. Know About Education that Works?
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
9.8.2009

Last week Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson hosted a Town Hall with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. A smaller Leadership Forum, "Education that Works: Ideas for Sacramento," preceded the public event where U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered some very encouraging remarks. He spoke of the "adult dysfunction" that "often hurts kids." Duncan's solution is to get out of the current "compliance-model bureaucracy [and] into the business of what works." Further, he urged "investment in organizations that challenge the status quo." And what is status quo?
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The "Obama Effect:" A Help or More Hot Air for D.C. Schoolchildren?
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
9.1.2009

On September 8, 2009, President Obama will kick-off the new school year with a speech about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school.  The U.S. Department of Education will also post a list of related classroom activities. A new report from Education Next and Harvard University suggests that the president "has the potential to be an extremely influential opinion maker on controversial education policy issues" and that "that a well-publicized stance on an education issue taken by a popular president can shift the opinions of a substantial segment of the American public-a surprising fact considering how stable aggregate public opinion on these issues has been over time."
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