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Friday, May 21, 2010

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Duncan's "miracle"

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Duncan's "miracle"

Duncan's "miracle"



More evidence of the fraud that was Duncan/Daley's "miracle" in Chicago. Arne Duncan rode the myth all the way to D.C.
Eighth-grade scores didn't show any significant gains between 2002 and 2009 -- a period spanning most of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's tenure here as Schools CEO.Chicago posted no substantial progress since 2002 in closing the achievement gap between white students compared