(NAME-MCE) If not Powell, WHO? Fwd: Petition for Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond for education secretary

[sheila hamanaka]

A teacher friend of mine sent me this petition in support of an 
educator for Sec'y of Education. Is anyone familiar with her work? And, 
does anyone have other suggestions/petitions for the position?

thanks for all the responses re Powell
Sheila Hamanaka

Begin forwarded message:

From: Evan Tobias <evantobias2010 at u.northwestern.edu>
Date: 14 November, 2008 11:51:19 EST
Subject: Petition for Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond for education secretary

Hi All,
(sorry about the mega mass email)

Wouldn't it make sense to have an outstanding educator and expert in 
the field as the next secretary of education?! Read below about an 
initiative to have Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond as the next secretary of 
education and then consider signing the petition.
  If you are not familiar with Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, author of "The 
RIght To Learn", here is her bio: 
http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/faculty/displayRecord.php?suid=ldh

http://www.petitiononline.com/DHammond/petition.html

-E 
Please feel free to forward this along:
The following original email is from Gail Burmaford:

Hey Folks,
There's a movement starting up to convince President-Elect Obama to 
appoint Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University, the new 
Secretary of Education. There is an online petition and we would like 
  to get as many signatures as possible.  Here are my thoughts - and 
some possible language if you want to go on Obama's website - and/or 
sign the petition.  The key for me is that she really has a handle on 
  the triangle -RESEARCH, POLICY, AND PRACTICE.

The district bureaucrats focus on policy, the academics rely on 
research, and the teachers care most about practice.  She is able to 
bridge all these communities.   She's really the only one I know of 
  right now who can do that.  Darling-Hammond can convene the smartest 
people (isn't that the Obama way?) who will actually attend and 
participate with her leadership (can't say the same for Joel Klein, 
  Arnie Duncan or Colin Powell - yes, you heard me right - that's the 
word).

There's more information about Dr. Darling-Hammond at the petition site.

http://www.petitiononline.com/DHammond/petition.html

Please pass this along to as many people as you can - we want to make 
this go viral!

This morning's Times noted that Education is way down on Obama's 
list.  I can tell you that LDH will NOT let it stay there.

gail