Gadfly is back

We know it was tough to be Gadfly-less through Thanksgiving (although we hope our sumptuous video menu helped tide you over). Good news: we're baaaack.

Spellings meets Duncan, who has "no idea" when ed secretary post to be announced

The AP reports that Arne Duncan, Chicago Public Schools chief,

No thanks, says Kaine

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Breaking down the brewing battle...

David Whitman, author of "Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism," wrote

Bill Gates ??? charter schools

Diane Ravitch to Lou Gerstner: Stop lecturing and start listening

The former IBM CEO gets no support for his proposal to eliminate the nation's 1

More than "Lips" service for broad-based reform

Dan Lips of The Heritage Foundation argues that there's much more to the conservative education agenda than just choice--that "the pundits who are pushing for the Republican Party to develop new ide

Close, but no cigar

Kathleen Sebelius almost beat out Joel Klein in our poll today, falling short of Klein's 9.7% of the vote, with just 9.5%. Not too much else has changed, so we are sitting tight. What might start to change insider opinion is a new story released by the Associated Press about Gov.