100 Days of Education Rhetoric

Real Clear Politics by Neal McCluskey | May. 1, 2009 (Opinion)

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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Glenn LaBauve
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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 pure rheteric and as much of a straw man as a false argument.

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