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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Looking back on Obama's pick

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Looking back on Obama's pick:

Looking back on Obama's pick

In December, 2008 President-elect Obama named Arne Duncan to be his new secretary of education. Obama's choice of Duncan over the much more highly qualified Linda Darling-Hammond should have been a tip-off as to what would transpire the next two-and-a-half years.

At the time, many of us were still optimistic in the wake of Obama's historic election victory. Based on his campaign promises,