Posted on 03/13/2010 6:25:45 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
A plan to overhaul the 2002 education law championed by President George W. Bush was unveiled by the Obama administration Saturday in hopes of replacing a system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.
"Unless we take action — unless we step up — there are countless children who will never realize their full talent and potential," Obama said during a video address on Saturday. "I don't accept that future for them. And I don't accept that future for the United States of America."
In the proposed dismantling of the No Child Left Behind law, education officials would move away from punishing schools that don't meet benchmarks and focus on rewarding schools for progress, particularly with poor and minority students. Obama intends to send a rewrite to Congress on Monday of the law.
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I’m so impressed with Obama’s record that I think he can do this. Obama can make the American educational system even worse than it is already, even in our cities.
He wants more indoctrination!
No Child Left Behind
hence to be known as
Git yur fat butt unda da bus!
Read, greater subversion of young minds.
Will he do this right away, or will he wait until after the level of the oceans starts going down?
I suppose this will result in urgently required new legislation that no one knows what it says, but must be passed now, or the end is near.....
How many times are the sheeples going fall for this lying sack of crap low life lying president?
Considering the only issue at stake is the amount of money that the federal government will give to individual school districts - the punishment vs. reward paradigm shift seems like a distinction without a difference.
The rewriting of history in the light of Socialism has begun....Our children are being taught that they are wards and serfs...
How many trillions will this cost?
Sure, throw more money at education. it’s worked so far, right? (sarc)
“Unless we take action — unless we step up — there are countless children who will never realize their full talent and potential,” Obama said during a video address on Saturday. “I don’t accept that future for them. And I don’t accept that future for the United States of America.”
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Considering that he wants to be president for life, I doubt he really believes this. Dictators prefer uneducated masses. Intellectuals have no place under communism.
Depend on the "education." In North Korea people are "educated" to worship the Kims as gods.
Just so. I don’t like the No Child Left Behind act, because it involves even more federal involvement in education. Better to abolish the Education Department.
But I’ve heard a lot of liberals complain about it, too. They hate it.
Although I’m not sure how much of that complaining is due to the imposed standards, and how much is just the usual Bush Derangement Syndrome. Anything Bush did is bad.
Blah blah blah-blah-blah. More high-sounding platitudes and government “solutions” to increasingly manage our lives and indocrtinate our children while making them dependent on federal handouts. At what cost? Do we have any idea? And what is the impact of that cost on our society and economy? Nobody knows or seems to consider the risk versus benefits. Most of all, nobody ever thinks of the loss of liberty and personal vitality of a free and independent nation.
Let me guess. All it takes is for us to give all our money to Obama and his thug cronies.
True:” His education expert wants to teach all young boys all about being gay.” These are the sickest SOB’s I have ever heard of in power.
My kids’ school is in pretty good shape. I hope the government stays far, far away!
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