True, Arne Duncan, chosen by the president-elect to be secretary of education, succeeded in closing some underperforming schools, in some cases starting up the same schools under new leadership. However, predicts Greg Forster, a senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, Duncan is “tame — you’ll never hear him push for anything that would seriously liberate schools from union control.” Duncan’s selection indicates Obama will not stand up to the teacher unions, and thus augurs ill for serious K-12 and teacher-education reforms.