Arne Duncan before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee
Okay. He’s not Godzilla. He’s more like that brother in-law who makes much more than you. He’s the guy you go on beer runs with at half time or join for holiday games of Skipbo when your mother in-law insists. You don’t hate the guy. You would just never voluntarily hang out with him, and he would never voluntarily hang out with you.
Is his heart in the right place? Who knows? He seems cordial enough in this video clip, earnest, smart. And he knows how to work a subcommittee. That’s for darn sure. But does he really mean (as he says around 1:20 deep) that education should mean more than just standardized tests? Was he the kid climbing the monkey bars or the bully throwing the weaker kids off?
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