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President-elect Barack Obama and Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan, right, talk with students at the Dodge Renaissance Academy Tuesday, December 16, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois. The two met with the students after Obama introduced Duncan as his choice for education secretary.

Education & Youth

Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling

Unless Duncan is willing to reinvent himself, the national agenda he will develop for education will leave a lot more kids behind than it helps.

By: Henry A. Giroux &; Kenneth Saltman ,; Truthout

December 17, 2008