President Obama discussed the economy in his Oval Office Address. He said ‘economy’ three times, ‘debt’ - zero, ‘deficits’ - one, ‘jobs’ – two and ‘education’ three times. Wow, what’s up with the education? Posted on 09/01/2010 8:00:09 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
President Obama discussed the economy in his Oval Office Address. He said ‘economy’ three times, ‘debt’ - zero, ‘deficits’ - one, ‘jobs’ – two and ‘education’ three times. Wow, what’s up with the education?
For too long, we have put off tough decisions on everything from our manufacturing base to our energy policy to education reform...As always President Obama’s words lack details. Unlike the due dates for withdrawal from Afghanistan that are cut in stone by the Commander-in-Chief, the details about what ‘education reform’ means are missing.
Those who fell once for the vague ‘hope and change’ slogan are determined not to get burned twice.
Judging by President’s actions so far education reform means pouring billions of dollars into the system, mostly to save union jobs.
If Obama drops down the Community Organizer Guide that is covering his view he may see that our education system is becoming obsolete. We have the technology to reform the mass education into individual education through virtual schools.
Instead of funding bureaucracies, buildings, transportation we can provide each kid with a lap-top or personal education portal, where the kid can access the knowledge through programs that provide the curriculum, test and asses each kid’s progress. We have technologies to accommodate special needs. We have biometrics that can verify who is behind the keyboard. Advisers and tutors can help on-line.
The Defense Department just opened their virtual school to assist the kids of military families across the globe. States are developing on-line materials for families that do at-home schooling.
If a kid is failing the alarm will go off pointing to the exact spot where the failure occurs so tutors and social workers can address the situation.
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Will he be any more rigorous enforcing THEIR borders than he has been in enforcing OURS?
Because if he isn’t .. we spent a lot of money and a guys died for absolutely nothing
“Judging by President’s actions so far education reform means pouring billions of dollars into the system, mostly to save union jobs.”
Exactly. Just another way to pay off a large demscum constituency. PERIOD.
I hope our combat troops don’t have to go back again.
This is not surprising. Remember what William Ayers does for a living: he promotes Constructivism across the country in the government school system. He put down the Molotov Cocktail and picked up the schoolhouse key, believing this to be the path to long-lasting change through revolutionary thought control. And yes, keeping the adult mind-numbed robots happy creating the little mind-numbed robots.
Education reform...code for Cash for teachers unions for votes this November.
In 2010, Barack Obama is calling for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top”,
which will fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,” which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk, which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter fixed the nation’s public school system by first establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
Obama keeps pretending that education is a federal government issue - it is not. The States are administering the education. If the feds have money for education that only means they took too much money from the tax-payers. Those folks would have spend the money where they live and support the states who are the real provider of public school education.
Federalizing the education is not a good idea.
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We did not have a Federal Department of education when we went to the Moon. Today we have Federal Department of Education, but we don’t have money to go to the Moon1
We have the technology to reform the mass education into individual education through **virtual** schools.
And that works out so good at the border to keep illegals OUT.How many kids have a parenst at? gawd the idiot is losing what few brain cells he had at the speed of light.
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