Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Arnold F. Shober
State Boards and the Governance of Early Childhood Education
As the definition of education has expanded to include the years before kindergarten, so too has the role of state boards of education. Boards now play an expanded and essential role in supporting the early childhood system. That role can vary substantially across states and evolve within states, making it important for board members to stay informed about developments in the early childhood system.
Roadmap to Excellence: Strategic Planning for State Boards
Great organizations have a clear sense of what they want to accomplish and how they are going to get there. For state boards of education, this vision and roadmap are typically articulated in a strategic plan. The best plans are living documents that guide state board actions or multiple years; lesser plans gather dust. What separates the two?
ESSA could face an uphill battle whether Clinton or Trump wins
Senator Lamar Alexander hailed ESSA as a means to return power to the states, but neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump seems quite convinced that the states should be left on their own. Although neither candidate has a worked out approach to education—unlike any of the last three presidents—ESSA may be in for tough going should either win office this November.
ESEA reauthorization continues a long federal retreat from American classrooms
Although many groups have lauded the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) because it abolishes the “hated No Child Left Behind” (NCLB), ESSA is less a “repeal” than another step in the federal retreat from the classroom and a testament to the continuing education exceptionalism in American politics.
Arne Duncan’s bipartisan legacy: Attracting vitriol from the right and the left
More than Margaret Spellings or Rod Paige, Arne Duncan was a bipartisan institution—he attracted vitriol from the right and the left. Was he a conservative sell-out? Foes on the left like Fenwick English, Kenneth Saltman, and the National Education Association thought so. Was he an imperious, waiver-happy Common Core evangelist? Christel Swasey and Glenn Beck pushed that line. For opponents, Duncan was the very personification of ill-intentioned educational reforms.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Arnold F.
Contact Arnold F., search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack