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...White House has insisted that Obama's address won't dip into policy and is geared primarily toward reducing the nation's troubling dropout rate. White House Deputy Policy Director Heather Higginbottom told the Associated Press that "it's really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this. It's simply a plea to students to take their learning seriously. Find out what they're good at. Set goals." The irony of the backlash, in fact, is that much of Obama's education platform, especially its emphasis on personal responsibility over entitlement, dovetails with conservative tenets...
Obama also named Christina D. Romer chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and appointed Melody C. Barnes and Heather A. Higginbottom to serve as director and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council...
Policy director Heather Higginbottom has been in charge of shaping a domestic agenda that she has described as a plan to undo Bush Administration policies...