Obama and his education secretary

From blog of Paolo Ferrandi
http://giornalismoparma.typepad.com/ , I met at a conference at unAcademy in SL, I discovered this news

President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Chicago schools executive Arne Duncan as his education secretary at an event in the city today, transition aides said, and is expected to tap Sen.
Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) later this week to serve as secretary of the interior, all but finalizing his selections for major Cabinet posts.
Obama plans to introduce Duncan this morning at Dodge Renaissance Academy, a Chicago elementary school that the two visited together in 2005.
Duncan, 44, has been chief executive of the Chicago public schools since 2001, steering the nation's third-largest school district, which has more than 400,000 students. Duncan was raised in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, not far from Obama's home, and is a longtime friend and basketball partner of the president-elect. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was co-captain of the basketball team, and he played professional basketball in Australia from 1987 to 1991. He returned to Chicago to direct the Ariel Education Initiative, which creates educational opportunities for youths on the South Side.
In 1998, Duncan joined the Chicago public school system, where he served as deputy chief of staff. Three years later, Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed Duncan chief executive.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, who visited a Chicago elementary school last week to highlight Duncan's pay-for-performance program, showered praise on the executive in an interview with The Washington Post last week. Spellings called him "a really good school leader."
"I do think he's a reform-oriented school leader who has been a supporter of No Child Left Behind and accountability concepts and teacher quality," she said. "He's a kindred spirit."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/15/AR2008121503429_pf.html

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Relatori: Paolo Ferrandi giornalista e blogger, Mattia Diletti e Mattia Toaldo, che hanno curato il blog America2008 (anche un libro in uscita) e si occupano di politica estera e Usa rispettivamente all'Università di Teramo e Roma3.
Modera Antonio Sofi.
Dove: Conference Hall, unAcademy
Quando: 16 dicembre, ore 22:00