Stafford (and David Brooks) are right that putting Linda Darling Hammond in the sub-cabinet would be just as troubling as putting her in the cabinet itself. Brooks writes that, "If the deputies and assistants in the secretary's office are not true reformers, nothing will get done." So true! We've had recent experience with this when a certain not-so-true-reformer (see Neuman, Susan B.) ran the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the early implementation of No Child Left Behind ground to a halt.
