This Week In Education Media: Not Enough School Leak

This Week In Education

Media: Not Enough School Leaks

by Alexander Russo

The Pentagon leaks, the White House leaks, but where are all the leaks in education? I can only think of a few. The RTTT winners stayed secret until they were announced. So did the judges' identities. Superintendent searches regularly remain closed until the winner is announced. Ditto for the announcement that Obama had chosen Duncan, though his name was no surprise. Hell, we don't even get mug shots of DUI state and district superintendents that the Drudge Report has made de rigeur for everyone else. It's not just recent events. Eight years later, no one's still detailed the conversations (or documents) that took place between the Hill and the White House that led Miller and Kennedy to say they NCLB appropriations should