There are plenty of reasons to focus attention and concern on President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for Secretary of Education. After all, VP Biden was part of the administration that gave us Arne Duncan as secretary, a choice universally panned by teachers. Public education advocates are hoping that Biden will give us a career educator with the leadership chops to manage a federal department that has been up against the ropes for a few years.

But the department needs more than just a solid secretary at the helm. It needs a mechanism in place that will help it hear teachers.

Education policy discussions in this country suffer from too many loud voices of education amateurs.

Source: This Is More Important To The Education Department Than Biden’s Choice Of Secretary