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Arne Duncan is the new education guy. In my reading up on him, he sounded neither super great nor overtly evil. He seemed a little in the middle. Every damn news article was sure to mention the basketball thing (he played professional basketball in Australia for a while after college, and these days plays pick-up games with Obama), and the CEO of Chicago Public Schools thing (always adding that his is the third-largest district in the U.S.).

Duncan is big on teacher accountability and on shutting down schools that aren’t getting the job done. He supports the facets of NCLB that aim to improve teacher and school accountability and the gathering of data that show how well the students are learning/being taught. I’m with him—for the most part—on that stuff. I’m also in agreement with Mr. Duncan that the NCLB act is too rigid and that one single set of rules doesn’t work well for every school in the country. Duncan wants to improve schools, but he sees that the NCLB—as it’s written now—isn’t conducive to that end.

It makes me happy that the new Secretary of Education was pissed about the NCLB act way back in 2003. If that weren’t enough to make me a believer, two blog posts I read about him tipped the scales for me. I’m only going to link to one, because I’m not (wo)man enough to deal with finding a burning cross on my front lawn should I anger this particular blogger. You can look for the post yourself; just Google these two magic phrasings: “Education Secretary Arne Duncan” and “Exposing Liberal Lies.” It’ll come right up. Good luck. I saw no light at the end of the tunnel while excavating the blog so I turned back.

The blogger in question, who also wrote an entire post about the erroneousness of global warming, dislikes Duncan because he spoke out in support of creating a gay, lesbian, bi and transgender-friendly high school. Duncan felt that these students needed some extra support, especially in light of the fact that teens dealing with sexuality questions and issues have disproportionately large numbers of drop-outs, homeless and runaways.

Knowing that Arne Duncan put his neck out there to support kids who are unpopular at school, at home, and with most of the religious right in this country made me want to sit in his corner. Only someone who was truly interested in the welfare and education of students in his district would support something that would make him popular only with the kids in question. It was ballsy and kind, which I will always support.

And since it’s not enough to support a gutsy nice guy just because he wants to alter the NCLB act and is not well-loved by people who don’t believe in hard science, I also needed this to tip the scales completely in his favor: Steven D. Levitt from Freakonomics had wonderful things to say about his firsthand experience with Arne Duncan:

Freakonomics readers will remember Arne as the hero of our chapter on teacher cheating. He was head of the Chicago Public Schools when Brian Jacob and I were investigating how teachers and administrators were doctoring standardized test sheets.
With seemingly nothing to gain and much to lose, Arne embraced our results, even allowing us to do audit testing to confirm our hypotheses. Eventually, a handful of teachers were fired.

Since then, I’ve interacted with Arne a few times, and in a variety of settings. I always walk away dazzled. He is smart as hell and his commitment to the kids is remarkable. If you wanted to start from scratch and build a public servant, Arne would be the end product.

Increasing Marketable Skills

Ah, the economy. I’ve always assumed that most humans of legal money-earning age have three thought-topics on more or less constant rotation through their minds: food, sex, and money. Those are all directly related to survival, so it makes sense that we’d be hyper-focused on them. And yet, when the media and the government types yell “The economy is tanking!” in a crowded theatre (or country, as it were), everyone comes unglued. All wage-earning adults are suddenly on a mission to make themselves Super-Duper Employable. Were they not toiling to that end before?

There’s nothing wrong with a strong work ethic and a good solid employability mindset. I’m all for being a productive citizen. It’s just odd to watch everyone suddenly scramble around in panicked circles and then run off in an Extra Hireable direction. What was everyone doing before, lolling around eating bonbons and archiving earwax chunks?

Sometimes it’s just bad luck: anyone who was kicking ass in the real estate business a few years ago is having a tough time these days. A lot of adults who had been, until recently, firmly ensconced in their careers are finding themselves less than necessary. Instead of wallowing in self-pity and praying for a miracle, a lot of adults are using the forced downtime to their advantage and are heading back to school.

According to this article in the CS Monitor, freaking out about the economy is causing prospective college students (and their bill-footing parents) to reconsider where (and if) they should do their matriculating. Out of 2,500 high school seniors surveyed by MeritAid.com, almost 60 percent were planning on less prestigious higher education venues for purely frugal reasons. 14 percent switched from plans to attend a four-year college and are heading to two-year colleges instead. 16 percent of the kids surveyed are halting all higher education plans for the time being.

College students currently attending private schools are considering the very tempting transfer to in-state public schools. And schools closer to home are a much more viable option for most families.

Admissions staffs see nervousness about not just tuition but also tangential costs. At a recent college fair in Greenwich, Conn., a mother and daughter approached the table for Claremont McKenna College. When the mom realized it was in California, “she said, ‘We’re having enough trouble financing the education these days, I don’t think we really want to worry about all the plane tickets,’ ” says associate dean of admission Adam Sapp. “I definitely didn’t hear that last year.”

The NY Times has an even cheerier article about families struggling to pay for college and the added challenge of loans being harder to come by these days.

Regardless of what sort of term system your school utilizes, at this point every college student in the land is up to their eyebrows in the hard damn work portion of their college education. Here’s a list of some of the tools that have elicited the most enthusiastic responses from college students around the blogosphere, along with some sites I thought were useful:

Doing the Research

ChunkIt
Google Book Search
Google Reader
Google Scholar
OEDb’s Research Beyond Google
Scholar Search Engines
WorldCat

Collecting the Research

Del.icio.us
Fireshot
PDFCreator

Resources

EnhanceMyWriting
How to Write a Term Paper
Idea Generator
LibrarianChick
Library Research Guide
Research 101

GED Online Diploma

Bibliography

BibMe
EasyBib
EndNote
OttoBib
Zotero

Taking Notes

Evernote
Google Notebook
mynoteIT

Organization (Not Forgetting Stuff)

Google Calendar
Remember the Milk
30 Boxes

Study Tools

Flashcards
How to Study: A Brief Guide
Study Guides and Strategies
Quizlet

Office Suites (the writing, presenting and spreadsheet parts)

Google Docs (free)
Microsoft Office (not as free)
Zoho (free)

Budget cuts are starting to tighten the screws at colleges and universities in California and Washington. Washington’s governor, Christine Gregoire, is fortunately leaving K-12 funding alone, but the public colleges and universities have been asked to either freeze or cut back on hiring, travel, equipment purchases and personal service contracts. That will save an estimated $36 million.

California’s State University system includes 23 campuses, over 450,000 students and 47,000 faculty and staff. That is a phenomenal amount of education going on. And that’s just the CSU system, which is totally separate from the UC system—they get cranky when people assume they are in any way related to one another, and they do not like it when students want to transfer between the two (as I discovered when I tried to transfer from CSUF to UCD).

With this year’s and last year’s budget cuts, the CSU system stands to lose as much as $600 million in state funding. The Cal State trustees had a big meeting and decided that the only way to deal with the huge number of students and the luck of funding would be to cut enrollment by 10,000 next year.

The policy will allow each campus to turn away students who in the past would have qualified for admission.

Campus presidents were overwhelmingly supportive of the move, which came as California prepares for what could be its largest group of graduating high-school seniors. Colleges increasingly have had trouble handling demand without adequate funding, said Stephen Weber, San Diego State’s president.

“What we have been involved in is literally academic fraud,” he said. “We have brought people and have not been able to provide the (courses) they need. That fraud catches up to us.”

Students and faculty also voiced support, saying the university should do whatever is necessary to preserve the value of a Cal State degree.

You have to respect any administrator who’s man enough to admit the situation is flawed and needs to be dealt with. Overcrowding means students don’t get into the classes they need and it becomes less and less possible to finish in four years. And while college is a lovely place to spend five years, the outrageous tuition costs make that option a nonviable one.

There’s a huge pile of work awaiting the next Secretary of Education. There’s the No Child Left Behind act to be dealt with, charter school issues, under-performing teacher improvement, accountability, a universal pre-K system, etc.

It would be great if higher education were a priority on that to-do list, but historically, nearly all of the previous appointees have had strong backgrounds in primary or secondary education. Admittedly, it’s a short history; Carter was the first president to appoint a Secretary of Education, so Obama’s Education chief will only be the ninth in U.S. history. Of the eight we’ve already had, only Lauro F. Cavazos, Jr., who served from 1988-1990, has had a background in post-secondary education.

Waiting and trying to guess at who will be picked is like some weird combination of high school prom (Who’s gonna ask who?), March Madness (Who’ll win the office pool?) and the weather report (read Chaos by James Gleick to fully appreciate how impossible it is to accurately predict the weather).

The not-so-short list of Obama’s possible picks are:

David Boren: Current President of the Univ. of Oklahoma; former Governor (D) of Oklahoma (1975-1979) ; former U.S. Senator (1979-1994)

W. Gaston Caperton III: President of the College Board

Michael Cohen: President of Achieve, a group that works to help states raise elementary and secondary academic standards

Linda Darling-Hammond: Top Obama education advisor

Arne Duncan: CEO of Chicago Public Schools

Christopher Edley, Jr.: Dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley

James B. Hunt, Jr.: Former governor of North Carolina

Michael Johnston: Director of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts

Timothy M. Kaine: Governor of Virginia

Thomas Kean: Former Governor of New Jersey, served as the Chairman of the 9/11 Commission in 2002

Caroline Kennedy: Daughter of President John F. Kennedy

Joel I. Klein: New York City public schools chancellor

George Miller: U.S. Rep. (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee and author of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act

Janet Napolitano: Governor of Arizona

Hilary C. Pennington: Director of Special Initiatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Colin Powell: Former Secretary of State in the first Bush Administration

Michelle Rhee: Washington, D.C. public school system chancellor

Sharon P. Robinson: President of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Andrew J. Rotherham: An Obama campaign advisor; co-founder of the education policy research group Education Sector

Jonathan Schnur: Chief executive of New Leaders for New Schools

Kathleen Sebelius: Governor of Kansas

Diane Shust: Director of government relations at the National Education Association

Paul G. Vallas: Superintendent of the Recovery School District of New Orleans

Robert E. Wise, Jr.: President of the Alliance for Excellent Education