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Republicans Missing Chance on Education Reform

Moonbat Exterminator Wrote: Jun 25, 2012 11:39 AM
Learning is a process that takes place between the ears of the learner. As such an intangible, it has no direct cost. The costs incurred come in providing a place where it takes place, people to organize and facilitate it, and ancillary materials. Look across the country. You'll see that the school districts with the highest per pupil spending share two commom traits. They are in Dem run big cities and they have by far the worst results by any metric known to exist. What needs to change is the curriculum. The new age touchy-feely ed theories have replaced readin, 'riting, and 'rithmatic with radicalism, revolution, and revisionist history.
Outofthebubble Wrote: Jun 25, 2012 5:36 PM
The curriculum changed with 'No Child Left Behind', or as teachers know it it 'Teach for the test'. This has been a horrible program and will hopefully be thrown out soon.
restoreliberty Wrote: Jun 25, 2012 9:44 PM
The curriculum changed long before No Child Left Behind - NCLB actually has ensured that some measurable standards are in place and that some accountability measures are enforced so that some children have been able to escape chronically failing schools.
One area that awareness of the need for freedom from government control has penetrated black attitudes is in education.

The chronic failure of public schools to notably improve dismal test scores and high dropout rates of black children has made it clear to many black citizens of good will that there has got to be a better way.

Polls show black support for school choice. For example, in a poll done last year in New Jersey by the Rutgers-Eagleton Center at Rutgers University, 54 percent of blacks expressed support for school vouchers compared to 36 percent of...
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