The Obama Transition Team is looking for feedback and stories as it attempts to craft the direction of its administration going forward. I urge everyone to post your ideas and stories at change.gov/page/s/yourstory. Here’s the story I just posted related to The No Child Left Behind Act and its impact on an alternative charter school my partner Sally was on staff for and my daughter Emma attended… (more…)

Me in my kitchen writing this post

The incoming Obama administration’s transition team has published a position paper with a fairly high-level breakdown of their plan for addressing early childhood, K through 12, and higher education.  For the purpose of this post I want to focus and comment on the K through 12 plan components including my comments.

Though I supported Clinton in the primary, I am really thrilled that Obama was elected and think he will be a transformational leader for our country.  But the education policies of most any liberal democrat – Clinton, Obama, or most anyone else – I’m generally just not comfortable with.  There is way to much bureaucratic, one-size-fits-all social engineering in most of my progressive comrades’ approach to education.  Maybe I am overly jaded and need to give them the benefit of the doubt, or maybe I am naïve in my analysis… you be the judge. (more…)