Aaron Pallas is Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Northwestern University, and served as a statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.
Aaron Pallas weighs in on Arne Duncan's "How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education"
The vote went along party lines
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