Arne Duncan has been pretty relentless in stumping for his new book How Schools Work (a book which Amazon currently lists as the #1 best-seller in the category “charter schools”).

I don’t intend to read the book because I don’t intend to enrich Duncan’s already-blossoming bank balance with my own money. If you’d like a review of the whole thing, I recommend this review by Aaron Pallas for Hechinger or Valerie Strauss’s take or even Rick Hess’s reaction at Forbes. Duncan has written something, but it isn’t really a memoir and it certainly isn’t an explanation of How Schools Work, a subject on which Duncan remains spectacularly obtuse.

I’ve read much of Duncan’s various attempts to pedal his tale, and now I’ve also listened to him speak about it on NPR, so that you don’t have to. Spoiler alert: it will once again reveal Duncan’s signature inability to reflect usefully on any of his experience. It is a common thread in most reviews of the book– Arne Duncan never seems to learn a thing.

Source: CURMUDGUCATION: Oh, Arne. Hush.