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Racial Disparities in School Discipline Oct. 03, 2018
President Barack Obama's first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversa... Read More
Crapweasel of the Week: Educrat Arne Duncan May. 23, 2018
Educrat (ED-yoo-krat) noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose ... Read More
Student Loan Debt: To Forgive and Forget Jun. 16, 2015
"You'd have to be made of stone not to feel for these students," Education Secretary Arne Duncan sai... Read More
Obamacore: Bad to the Core Jun. 11, 2014
In the past week, Govs. Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma evicted Common Cor... Read More
For-Profit Schools Not the Problem May. 16, 2014
Give the Obama administration credit for consistency if nothing else when it comes to targeting the ... Read More
Why Parents Are "Paranoid" About Common Core Feb. 21, 2014
This week's award for Biggest Common Core Jerk goes to Missouri GOP state legislator Mike Lair. Pare... Read More
New Guidelines Undermine School Discipline Jan. 10, 2014
With much ballyhoo, the Obama administration announced this week that it will keep a close eye on sc... Read More
Feds' 3 Tentacles in the Common Core (Part 3) Nov. 26, 2013
After months of the feds doing everything they could to distance themselves from the origin and laun... Read More
No, Arne Duncan, 'White Suburban Moms' Aren't the Problem; You Are Nov. 22, 2013
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English... Read More
Arne Duncan's War on Women and Children Nov. 20, 2013
Just when you thought the Obama administration couldn't antagonize America any further, along comes ... Read More
Feds' 3 Tentacles in the Common Core (Part 2) Nov. 19, 2013
Last week, I explained what the Common Core State Standards are and how, despite the federal governm... Read More
Feds' 3 Tentacles in the Common Core (Part 1) Nov. 12, 2013
In 2007, a group of governors and state education chiefs got together to try to remedy the declining... Read More
