{"id":439,"date":"2009-02-06T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-02-06T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T05:16:38","slug":"help-shape-president-obamas-ed-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/help-shape-president-obamas-ed-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Shape President Obama’s Ed Team!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Linda Darling-Hammond<\/figcaption><\/figure>Just a quick post to suggest that you urge President Obama to add his advisor Linda Darling-Hammond to the top echelon of his Department of Education team lead by Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Darling-Hammond is more of a progressive educator, sympathetic with the kind of educational alternatives that I am advocating for, than Duncan and therefore an important addition to the DoE leadership team.
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\nTo send your thoughts to Obama on this issue click on the following link<\/a> and participate in the Change.org effort on Darling-Hamilton’s behalf. The intro page you are directed to will give you more information about her and a sample letter that you can either send as is or customize to reflect your own words.
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\nThe more people that respond on this issue of course the better, so please pass the link on to any like minded friends and family to do so themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick post to suggest that you urge President Obama to add his advisor Linda Darling-Hammond to the top echelon of his Department of Education team lead by Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Darling-Hammond is more of a progressive educator, sympathetic with the kind of educational alternatives that I am advocating for, than Duncan and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[133,134],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-ongoing-strategy-for-learning","tag-linda-darling-hammond","tag-obama-administration-education-team"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t