Watching Duncan on C-Span3...

[YvonneCa]

...testifying on NCLB re-Authorization here: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN3_wm.aspx

If you miss it live, it's worth watching the replay. I think he may have heard us... ;)

[goclark]

1. Heard us how ~ ?

[YvonneCa]

4. Very positive tone about teachers. No disrespect or...

...scapegoating language. And I think he may have read my example for 'measuring growth.' :7

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/YvonneCa/107

[tonysam]

7. It's all show. His actions belie any flowery rhetoric about teachers. n/t

[lamp_shade]

2. I watched some of it. He's good.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Good how?

[lutefisk]

5. He knows not to bad mouth the other team- it only serves to motivate them against you

Teachers are the other team in his view...

He learned a lot from his years playing basketball. It prepared him well to be the Secretary of Education.

[tonysam]

6. You need a sarcasm thingy on your post. n/t

[Fire1]

8. That's for sure! n/t

[lutefisk]

9. Thank you for not thinking I am a complete moron and support Arne

"He learned a lot from his years playing basketball. It prepared him well to be the Secretary of Education."

The missing sarcasm thingy::sarcasm:
...and for good measure:puke:

[Catshrink]

10. He'll have to do more than just talk.

His actions thus far don't bode well for public education.

I replied thusly to the last OFA email:

Obama doesn't support public school teachers so why should I support him? His actions through his education secretary are despicable. Really. Praising the wholesale firing of teachers in a low SES district, without regard to individual teacher performance and effectiveness? Privatizing public schools by turning them over to for-profit education corporate vultures? What does Bill Gates and the other billionaires know about teaching? What does Arne Duncan know about teaching? None of these people has ever been a school teacher. If teachers are so important, why does Obama-Duncan treat them like the most dispensable? Is this just an attempt to break the unions so they can pay teachers like Wal-Mart workers? I am so disappointed. I want my vote back.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. There's an OFA meeting in my neighborhood tonight

I'm thinking of going. Thanks for writing my speech :evilgrin:

[Catshrink]

12. Hey, any time.

:hi:

[tonysam]

13. Here is the link to the testimony for anybody who cares to read it

Arne Duncan's testimony