Jay Mathews thinks Arne Duncan shouldn’t be the Secretary of Education. In fact, he looks at recent Ed Secys Bill Bennett, Rod Paige, Dick Riley, Margaret Spellings and Duncan and asks why do we have the job at all?
Their best work for kids, in my view, happened when they were NOT education secretary. So let’s abolish the office and get that talent back where it belongs, where school change really happens, in our states and cities.
Mathews may not realize it but the same thing, writ small, happens in schools everywhere. How often does this year’s superstar teacher become next year’s math or literacy coach? If this thinking applied to sports, Chase Utley would become the Phillies batting coach next year.
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