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12.28.2008 8:58 pm

Federal schools chief must manage to educate

(Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

(Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

President-elect Barack Obama took playground basketball to new heights when he nominated Arne Duncan to become the next U.S. Secretary of Education.

Mr. Duncan, 44, is a veteran of the president-elect’s Chicago pickup hoop games, and he also is the…

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05.15.2008 1:07 pm

Thursday editorial: Dream killers

FAFSAIn 1980, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan promised that if elected, he would abolish the then-fledgling U.S. Department of Education. He was. He didn’t.

But at this time of year — the high season for applying for many of the financial aid programs…

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