The Education Mayor

By Kleinheider Posted on December 3, 2008 at 6:17 am

Karl Dean travels to New York to lean more about mayoral-controlled school systems:

“He’s clearly trying to educate himself on how mayoral control works,” said Board of Education Chair David Fox. “I just assume he’s doing due diligence on that, since he has made it clear that he is preparing himself to govern the system if he has the opportunity.”

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Energizing Education

By Kleinheider Posted on May 7, 2008 at 7:19 am

Bettina Chavanne warns that Lamar Alexander’s Manhattan project on energy only works if we have enough educated brainpower to concentrate:

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said the time has come for a “new Manhattan Project.” In 1942, he said, the world feared the country to develop the first atomic bomb could blackmail everyone else. “Today, countries that supply oil and natural gas can blackmail the rest of the world,” he said. “We need to guarantee victory over that kind of extortion. Concentrating brainpower to that kind of idea isn’t new.” But that brainpower can only come if it’s fostered and encouraged from an early age.

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