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Palin Opts Out of Effort to Standardize K-12 Education
US News and World Report ^
| 6/4/2009
| Jessica Calefati
Posted on 06/04/2009 6:41:15 PM PDT by markomalley
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Good for her. Keep her schools out of the grubby hands of the federal government.
To: markomalley
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posted on
06/04/2009 6:41:50 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: markomalley
What the Hell is wrong with states? Why even be a state then?
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posted on
06/04/2009 6:44:12 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
To: markomalley
what many believe education in the United States has lacked for too long: a common denominator. When GWB was in office, he was slammed continually for wanting to impose national standards on schools, which he never supported. Whether or not it is a good idea is debatable. It is strange, however, that it is happening now with very little complaint. Everything is "but, that's different."
To: markomalley
Sarah Palin is a true leader.
To: cripplecreek
Another reason why America needs Sarah Palin.
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posted on
06/04/2009 6:51:19 PM PDT
by
DHSMostWanted
(Apparently you don't have to be intelligent to get an Ivy League degree.)
To: markomalley
Alaska’s pupils have a right to know how they measure up against their peers in other parts of the country, ............... Hmmmmmm if Comeau wants an indicator have her watch re runs of “Jay Walking”. To me, that would be a very big indicator of how they would match up with other parts of the country.
To: markomalley
Funny, I thought the SAT’s and the ACT’s did that.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Excellent observation: “why even be a state then?”
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posted on
06/04/2009 7:16:15 PM PDT
by
frposty
(I'm a simpleton)
To: markomalley
I like her so much. She keeps doing many things right.
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posted on
06/04/2009 7:27:16 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
To: Freee-dame
I have heard several math teachers in my district blast W for the No child Left Behind Act. None of them knew that W only signed it - Kennedy wrote it.
I am glad to see TX is on the list of those not participating.
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posted on
06/04/2009 7:34:14 PM PDT
by
mathluv
( Conservative first and foremost, republican second)
To: markomalley; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; A Strict Constructionist; ...
Alaska joins Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas on the shortlist of states that have bowed outSouth Carolina
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posted on
06/04/2009 7:51:20 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
To: markomalley
Sarah was very much right to NOT be involved with this mess.
One of the problems with such a national standard is who writes the standard? Far Left leaning people with an agenda!
The far lefties write the curriculum in many states so even if you live in a conservative area, your kids are learning about having two daddies or two mommies, the important founders of our country (excluding all those dead white guys though!), etc, etc, etc.
This would be more of the same at the national level - so states that DON’T follow the leftists agenda get pilloried for their poor scores.
To: NorthernTraveler
Sara is correct because
How do you compare a child who lives in the Y-K delta and speaks Y’upik (as a primary language) to a ghetto rat from Liberty City FL? Short answer - you can't. Period. Dot.
There is no National Education Standard that can be written that can cover such a vast differences in culture, ethnicity and regional (dialect, associations, etc, etc) - it's pipe dream of control freaks.
National literacy standards, yes. Minimum math skills, maybe. There is no universal solvent.
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:57:30 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
To: markomalley
Education is a STATES RIGHTS issue and NOT listed under Congresses powers in the Constitution.
Maybe those who disagree with Gov Palin need to review the US Constitution over the summer.
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:58:28 PM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann in 2012. With Liz Cheney as Secretary of State.)
To: HighlyOpinionated
Oh, federalism is SO reactionary, y’know.
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posted on
06/04/2009 9:53:08 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
To: mathluv
W only signed it - Kennedy wrote it. Which makes the fact that George the Last signed it even more odious. Let's face it, Bush was a disaster.
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posted on
06/05/2009 3:43:24 AM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: nonliberal
. Let's face it, Bush was a disaster. <
BDS
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posted on
06/05/2009 3:48:27 AM PDT
by
sausageseller
(http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
To: nonliberal
There were things he was for that I did not support. I would call the o a disaster, but not W.
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posted on
06/05/2009 4:02:29 AM PDT
by
mathluv
( Conservative first and foremost, republican second)
To: sausageseller
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posted on
06/05/2009 5:14:26 AM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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