Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

Looking at the farcical proceedings in the run up to the American Presidential elections, one shudders at the thought of the final result.

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.