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...good ol’ boys at the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teacher’s union, love this idea—so much so that they’ve been proposing it for nearly two decades. After what could be remembered by NEA apparatchiks as “the great betrayal,” when Democrats including Kerry voted for the NCLB’s planks on teacher and school accountability, the nominee-to-be has reversed himself, crudely plagiarizing the NEA’s position papers and taking them as his own plan...
...road from food industry executive to national arts booster is not a path well-traveled. But it is the path of Dana Gioia, a former General Foods vice president, Harvard alum, poet and newly appointed chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA...
Gioia’s concern with broadening the range of poetry’s readership in this era is informing his major goals as he begins his tenure as NEA Chairman...
...addition to rebuilding the NEA as a premier public institution through which he can “provide leadership in building a national consensus to support arts and arts education,” Gioia says he hopes to establish what he calls “democratic access” to art as a worthy goal compatible with that of artistic excellence...
Smith spends his days at the NEA poring over research about state educational achievement testing, like Massachusetts’ MCAS tests or the New York Regents exams and working to ensure educational equity...