Touting another pal from his neighborhood, Chicago Public School Superintendent Arne Duncan, as the new Education Secretary, The Office of President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama stated   In just seven years, he’s boosted elementary test scores here in Chicago from 38 percent of students meeting the standards to 67 percent. The dropout rate has gone down every year he’s been in charge. And on the ACT, the gains of Chicago students have been twice as big as those for students in the rest of the state.   Whoa! Matt Cover of CNS News reports: According to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report for 2007, Chicago public schools have consistently performed below the national average during Duncan’s tenure.   Using test results from 8th graders, who had spent the bulk of their school years under Duncan's system, Cover further discovered  By 2007, only 17 percent of Chicago...(Read Full Post)