Assistant Secretary: Few people at Education Department have any experience in education

Finally, somebody came out and said it.

"There are very few people at the Department of Education who have any experience in education."

Those in education who have had to deal with Race to the Top and the never ending push toward Common Core Standards (and the accompanying increase in standardized testing)  are not surprised to hear that.

The people who are  creating educational policy for the United States are lawyers and bureaucrats and a CEO named Arne Duncan.

What was surprising was the venue where that proclamation was made and the audience to whom it was directed.

As seen in the accompanying Missouri Department of Education video, the speaker was Assistant Secretary of Education Deb Delisle, who is an educator, and who, according to her is using her experience to provide some guidance to the non-educators in her department, including her boss. Apparently, that has not worked too well.

The audience was made up of school superintendents attending the 52nd annual Cooperative Conference for School Administrators last week.

You will hear plenty of the buzzwords that are damaging American education bandied out frequently in Ms. Delisle's speech.