Latest News and Comment from Education

Sunday, July 3, 2011

A fight within the family? « Fred Klonsky's blog #NEARA11

A fight within the family? « Fred Klonsky's blog

A fight within the family?

I waited in a security line to get into the RA for almost three hours this morning.

To hear VP Joe Biden.

I know. Crazy.

But not so crazy.

President Dennis Van Roekel’s speech yesterday and Joe Biden’s speech today provided an interesting contrast.

Biden was actually more self-critical of the Obama education policies than DVR was.

Dennis never said a critical word of Arnie Duncan, the target of almost all delegate contempt here, or anything else related to the Dems.

Biden acknowledged teacher unhappiness and admitted differences “within the family.” He even admitted we had been right and the administration had been wrong “on some issues.”

Clearly the Obama administration is worried about what is going on in NEA ranks and the ill-conceived early no