Gordon to OMB
Some new appointees for the Office of Management and Budget including CAP Senior Fellow Robert Gordon:
Jeffrey Liebman, now Malcolm Wiener professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, will be executive associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. Robert Gordon, policy director for Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004, will be associate director for education, income maintenance, and labor. And Xavier de Souza Briggs, associate professor of sociology and urban planning at MIT, will be associate director for general government programs. (Their biographies, provided by Obama’s transition office, are below.)
Liebman has written against “carve-outs” of private accounts from the existing Social Security system but in favor of add-on accounts. Don’t know anything about de Souza Briggs.
Gordon is awesome. I especially recommend these articles on teacher certification, crime, and conservative myths about the Community Reinvestment Act.
But beyond these qualities, he has the to help Peter Orszag build a true Team of Bloggers at the OMB. Not only did Orszag run the top public sector blog back during his days as CBO Director, but Robert’s been an important member of CAPAF’s Wonk Room team as well as an occasional contributor to TNR’s blogs. You can see his Wonk Room posts here. I think there hasn’t been official word on whether or not there will be an OMB blog (OMBBLOG), but I’m really hoping to see one.
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January 20th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Well Matt, looks like you’re the only one left at CAP. Hope you know how to run the copier!
January 20th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Great pick. We need more career thinkers in key positions rather than career pols.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:24 am
OMFB!
January 20th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Briggs is a superb thinker on urban issues.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
And that record Gordon did with Link Wray was pretty good, too.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:52 am
What do you figure: One Bob Rubin = 10,000 Bob Gordons? Easy to see where the policy tips.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:42 am
I looked at Gordon’s piece on teaching. I’m disappointed in his proposed solution, but only on one score.
He, like most others, assumes that all teachers have students who are roughly equal in their motivation to learn. I think it’s important to remember that without active participation from the student, it doesn’t matter who the teacher is or how “talented” they are.
Any approach upgrading scholastic performance has to take this into account; teachers are not all working with the same material. It’s not a production line where everyone gets the same block of clay to mold.
I seriously doubt that teachers who grade out very well in well-funded suburban school districts would grade out as well in rural school districts. And yes, I’m deliberately avoiding the common comparison to inner-city schools. I think that comparison injects an element of race into the equation that is not necessarily appropriate or helpful.
For the record, I’m a 60 year old African-American male with some college under my belt.
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