TRANSITION: Darling-Hammond To Lead Policy Team? [updated]

The latest rumor on the street is that LDH is going to head the education policy review team during the transition -- a counterpart to Judy Winston on the administrative/organizational side. 

I've got a couple of emails out to see if I can confirm the story, but if true it would be perhaps the first tangible step that the Obama team has made to confirm Linda's prominence since she was first invited to be a surrogate for during the campaign.

If not, it's just the latest of what I'm sure will be many rumors floating out there about what happens next on the education front. 

UPDATE:  No confirmation yet, but I can tell you that LDH will be in DC this week and that some sort of announcement is in the works.  In the meantime, lots of other transition news:

Obama goes back to school TIME

The New Team: Joel I. Klein NY Times

Will There Be an "Acting Obama" Effect? Freakonomics [interesting!]

Obama Team Weighing What to Take On in First Months NY TImes

After Push for Obama, Unions Seek New Rules NY Times

Public or Private? Washington Post [Jay Mathews touts Thomson Elementary]

 

Comments

[Brian Barker]

Apparently Obama's education policy is for everyone to learn another language, however which one should it be?

The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish. Yet this leaves Russian and Mandarin Chines out of the equation.

It is time to move forward and discuss the subject of a common international language, taught worldwide, in all nations?

It's totally relevant then, that UNESCO will meet in Paris, on 15th December, to acknowlege Esperanto, as a living language, in conjunction with the International Year of Languages

An interesting video can be seen at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670. A glimpse of the language can be seen at http://www.lernu.net