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Friday, May 25, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: At what point does spin become lying Arne Duncan?

Missouri Education Watchdog: At what point does spin become lying Arne Duncan?:


At what point does spin become lying Arne Duncan?


This week Secretary Duncan participated in the Labor Management Conference in Cincinnati.  It looks like the conference  wasn’t that interesting, because he had a lot of time to tweet about it. The tweets sounded wonderful until you really analyzed them, and put them up against what action the DOEd is taking. Then you realized every one of them was a bit of propaganda straight out of Edward Bernays' manual.

23 May Arne Duncan ‏@arneduncan
We need to value teaching as much as we value law or engineering. #LMConf12

23 May Arne Duncan ‏@arneduncan
We need to change public perception of teaching. It needs to be honored & valued, instead of diminished &