Obama's Betrayal of Public Education?

Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling

Unfortunately, Obama has appointed as his secretary of education someone who actually embodies this utterly punitive, anti-intellectual, corporatized and test-driven model of schooling. Full Story »

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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Dec. 18, 2008

It's well written and biased as hell.If you want to report, report. While I may or may not agree with Obama's choice, reading your article , you've already made up MY mind.

When Bush and Kennedy together lobbied and had passed the "No Child Left Behind Act", I thought at last something would be done to help low-income schools from being a daytime prison. While children who wanted to learn could't because of the trouble-makers disrupting the classroom, all this program did was teach children to test. A school should be just that, a school. It should't just test the three R's. Without art classes, music classes, computer classes, etc., you do not learn anything. Some of the greatest writer's, artists, and musicians of a generation were probably robbed of their God-giving right to education. While Mr. Duncan, whom I do not know except what I've read, may not be everyone's cup of tea, he is something to drink.

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