Posted on 09/22/2010 11:30:35 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
Next week, NBC News will present its "Education Nation" summit, which will explore the state of education in America.
This morning the network announced that the event will kick off on "Today" next Monday, Sept. 27 with a live interview with President Barack Obama.
Obama will be interviewed by "Today" co-anchor Matt Lauer, who will ask about education in America.
> Update, 2pmET: The half-hour interview will air at 8 a.m. on "Today" and will be roadblocked across various NBCU Networks including MSNBC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, Chiller, Sleuth, UNI HD and Universal Sports.
The network is also soliciting questions from viewers, with Lauer asking a selection of them on-air. Viewers can submit their questions for President Obama here.
The "Education Nation" interview will be the second one President Obama has given to NBC recently. Earlier this week he appeared live on cable network CNBC for a town hall discussion about the economy.
Maybe he will bring his school records and we can all see them!
Is he going to release his college transcripts? That would be a real education.
the, dummy
You can spray a sack of crap with Febreze....
Oooh. Another feel-good catch phrase which translates to NOTHING.
Oh Yeah! Just what he needs, more TV time...the more he’s seen the lower his approval ratings plummet. Go for it, O.
I’m sure the need for more taxpayer money will be mentioned.
It would nice if the Obamaloon actually HAD an education.
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.
...and another free campaign commercial for the Moron in Chief.
About every five to ten years our education system is revealed to be failing miserably. And about every five to ten years, a group of very educated knowledgeable people gather to make just the right changes to get the public school system back on track.
Who are those knowledgeable people? Why they’re the same people who failed the last time around, the members of the very education system that is not only failing our children, but propagandizing them, and verbally sexually assaulting them on behalf of perverts and homosexuals.
Bush got into the act last time. Now Obama will get into the act. And in another five to ten years another president will get into the act. They always make nice comments to show they really care. We understand that they don’t know jack about the issue, and smile back at them because this is all for the children. Can’t leave any of them behind you know.
At every step of this downward spiral, the American public have been assured that the academics had it under control. And as our children have been betrayed, their parents have extended their faith to the federal government, concerning new pointless fixes, and the rest of what they have been and are doing to our children.
I don’t know what round of fixes this will actually be. Is it fix eight or sixteen. Does it matter? Have any of the fixes before this one actually helped? Has our education system rebounded? Have we crawled out of the darkness? Well, ask yourself, is there a need for another fix education effort?
Evidently the people who are administrating our current education fix are convinced there is.
Is the American public going to buy off on this process again? Seriously?
Undoubtedly so.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me time after time after time after time, hell just take my kids away already.
And they are... Send your kids to these schools. Watch them carve out their belief system and replace it with one of their own.
I’m not sure what the need for a fix is. The really important stuff like this has been perfected. I guess it’s to remind us how much our nation’s educators really care.
I’m convinced they care. They put a lot of effort into indoctrinating our children to be the first generations of the only perfectly run collectivist unisex society in world history. This society forces our six to twenty-two year olds kids to dwell on race, sex, and homosexuality constantly.
History? Math? English? (I shoulda said Spanglish) Science? Not really that important in the New World Odor.
It’s the latest version of the more they fix things, the more they remain the same. We’re off to the Islamic, non-Christian, unisex, every sex, holy shrine to utopia. It looks for all the world like a barber pole, the symbolic depiction of blood running down from the top, just the reverse of what it always results in for these destroyers.
Predicted outcomes of this “summit”:
1) There is nothing wrong with America’s schools that can’t be solved with more money, despite a history of diminishing returns on escalating investment.
2) Teachers and school administrators are not to blame for substandard student performance and should not be held accountable.
3) Opting out of public schools deprives districts of badly needed revenue and leads to maladjusted, inconsistently educated children, despite the fact that home-schooled kids repeatedly demonstrate academic superiority over their public school counterparts.
4) America’s adoption of a “multicultural” agenda has enlightened children, not deprived them of valuable resources that would better be spent teaching them to read, write, and calculate.
Next up: NBC’s summit on spats, buggy whips, and healing elixirs.
Odumba is educated enough to know the geography of America and it’s 57 states.
Good points one and all!
And I often wonder about the Department of Education. Jimmy Carter pulled Education out of the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and created a separate cabinet level Department of Education.
My question which nobody can ever answer is: is the state of public education in this country better because we have a cabinet level Department of Education?
Are kids getting a better education today because we devote such resources to this department?
Or, alternately, was the state of public education inherently deficient until our country made education a cabinet level presidential priority????
And Washington, DC, public schools spend among the highest per capita on education in the country, and have some of the worst outcomes.
And to be politically incorrect, the vast majority of DC public school kids are a certain minority. And too many people of this minority come from family backgrounds which are not conducive to educational achievement. Anecdotal evidence is that too many of these kids, especially by middle school/high school, deride doing well in school as acting like a certain other group of people, and such labeling is done in a pejorative way.
If too many kids in a school do not have the strong parental and family support, and have a bad attitude about school and doing well in school, then it won’t matter how much money you spend, or what resources you devote to that school, or how many computers you put in, or how many updated textbooks you buy, or what type of performing arts center or physical education facilities such a school has. None of that matters if the kids aren’t there to learn and can’t/won’t behave and do their jobs as students.
True enough. Every politician in America, from the president on down, will say that they favor every child in America getting a quality education. Or that the children are out future. Or that we have to compete in a 21st century economy, and need the best educated students to compete. Or some such meaningless platitudes. Obama will say something along these lines.
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