100 Days of Education Rhetoric

If you look just at dollar signs or rhetoric to measure the education success of Barack Obama's first one-hundred days, then the President should get an A. Base it on meaningful reform, however, and he'd be lucky to get a passing grade.

Obama's overwhelming education focus has been on getting roughly $100 billion directed to education through the American Recover and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). But he and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, haven't ... Full Story »

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by Glenn LaBauve - May. 1, 2009

This has been the mantra from the right to be ignorant groups since before the scopes monkey trial. Only those people that can education should be allowed to be educated, goverment should not spend money and politics shouldn't be involved in education. Vouchers and other "enlightened programs only benefit those that have the additional funds needed to attend those wonderful private schools where costs can go over 50,000 per year.

Politics is involved in every faze of our lives from health care and relegion to death and taxes, to talk of getting politics out of anything is ... More »

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by B.G.Rhule - May. 1, 2009

The undercurrent of this opinion piece is as obvious as a rhinocerous in a living room: either one is for vouchers or one is somehow diametrically opposed to school reform. Rubbish. Not a single study was cited in which the efficacy of vouchers as the pervasive and all-encompassing embodiment of school reform is so myopic as to render the piece inane and insipid in tone. From a mere logical premise, the argument is at once specious; there exists myriad ways to get from point A ... More »

I put two sons through Catholic elementary / middle schools, and as a single mom I certainly could have used the extra money from vouchers. I was ... More »

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