The Obama Education Revolution
Lindsey Burke /
During his otherwise ordinary remarks yesterday at the National Press Club, education secretary Arne Duncan said something quite extraordinary.
It came as he was announcing the 19 finalists for the second round of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top grant competition:
We arrived in Washington at a time when America was deeply divided over the proper federal role in educational policy.… We are a very long way from the classroom in Washington, and if we have learned one thing from [No Child Left Behind], it’s that one-size-fits-all remedies generally don’t work.