Hoover Institute Fellow Named Asst. Secretary of Ed

Quelle surprise. Bush named Bill Evers, Hoover Institute (a conservative think-tank) to be the new assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development. He's well-versed in the school accountability rhetoric.

I actually have favorable feelings to the Hoover Institute; they've published some interesting work on Florida schools that I feel has merit.

One interesting note... he served in Iraq in 2003 as a senior advisor to Paul Bremer, and wrote about Iraq's "Constitutional Crossroads" in the National Review on 8/15/07. Bang up job as an education advisor, it seems, given that the University of Bagdhad is so safe and all. Maybe he was focusing on K-12 (or the Iraqi equivalent).