LDH For Secretary?
First, presidential candidate Barack Obama endorses the "residency" model of teacher training, which provides a year of intense clinical experience to teaching candidates before they take over a classroom.
Then, Obama brings on Linda Darling Hammond as a prominent advisor.
Now there's talk -- just talk, of course -- that LDH could be in line to be an Obama pick for Education Secretary.
My guess is that this would be fine with the teachers unions -- LDH hasn't been a sharp critic. More centrist and reform-minded Obama supporters will be enraged, but they don't really have anywhere else to go.
Like the bumper stickers say, "Dare to hope. Prepare to be disappointed."
Is top education bureaucrat a job LDH would want? Isn't a "senior White House advisor" role more likely?
Posted by: John Norton | July 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Surely there is a mediocre ex-Governor available for the job.
Posted by: Gary S. Stager, Ph.D. | July 24, 2008 at 23:07 PM