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At The 74 Emmeline Zhao and I are interviewing people around the sector, scroll down for Shavar Jeffries and Arne Duncan. Today, Margaret Spellings: Margaret Spellings has been a senior aide at the White House, a college president, and Secretary of Education for President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009. She’s been in the …
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Don’t miss Chad Aldeman on the Obama education legacy in Education Next. Ashley Mitchel has some pre-K lessons from Michigan that Betsy DeVos might heed. New Administration: They don’t know their way around yet… Going to CIA to do a political event is a complete rookie move by President Trump. Doesn’t even know he has a Dept. of …
Here’s a picture of a honey badger piñata. Margaret Spellings is the new president of UNC. Long article reviews and previews. Couple of things to keep in mind. First, it’s fun to speculate but no one knows how anyone will do at a job like this. Lots of contingencies. Second, university president jobs are largely about …
Just announced from Texas: Former White House Domestic Policy Advisor and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is leaving her consulting firm and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she leads the education work, and heading back to Texas to become President of the George W. Bush Institute.* From this morning’s press release: “Spellings will …
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Tuesday night (September 8th) there is a Young Education Professionals Happy Hour featuring some where are they now action. Urban Teacher Residency United has a new leader (pdf): Diane Robinson, who if you don’t know her is outstanding. It’s a big catch for them. John Merrow sits down and catches up with Margaret Spellings and the Sierra …
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Margaret Spellings is no stranger to this blog. Still, although she, and her taste in everything from policy to eye-wear to cartoons, has been discussed here at great length, today is a unique day. As you can see from the post below this one, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is dipping a Texas toe into the bloggy water. Specifically, the Secretary …
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Let me begin by thanking Andy Rotherham for the opportunity to begin my blogging career on Eduwonk.com. I’m happy to have this opportunity to use technology to share a new white paper about technology based on what we’ve learned during the roundtables we hosted this year along with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin.Today, no group …
Via Flypaper, it’s reading, writing, and plural marriage at one of this year’s federal Blue Ribbon schools!
Sheryl Stolberg’s long-awaited Margaret Spellings profile ran today. It’s smart and she reported the hell out of it even though education isn’t her beat. But that shows through a bit in quotes like this: “No Child Left Behind, as implemented, has not passed the common sense or the fairness test,” said Joe Nathan, director of …
I saw Secretary Spellings the other day and she made two interrelated points that bear mentioning here. She said that no matter how you slice it, No Child Left Behind has created a national conversation about education. That’s more or less right. But she also noted that federal authority on accountability is threatened by a …