Education Secretary Arne Duncan Criticizes Scott Walker on Teacher Unions
I get the feeling that Arne Duncan and President Obama are initiating some sort of shift in policy toward education reform. Obama recently made remarks casting doubt on the usefulness of high-stakes testing. Now Duncan has sharply rebuked the anti-teacher efforts underway in Wisconsin:
“What was stunning to me is where folks are showing vision and courage and being forward-minded, we support those efforts,” Duncan said at the Education Writers Association conference in New Orleans. “For him to go in that direction after the leadership that the union had shown simply made no sense to me. It was
