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The article is not clear about what Gov. Perry wants that
they do NOT. Would you clarify?

Maybe the group favors vouchers and Perry is against them?

YOU Diogenesis, YOU, who believes I can't think my way out of a paper bag, a shill for Perry, a dumb poster, YOU want ME to clarify something for YOU.

Now we're making progress.

I'll be glad to help.

Seven Solutions to Strengthen Higher Education

For starters, Gov. Rick Perry wants to give students and their parents power as "customers" of higher education. He also wants institutions of higher learning to TEACH not just serve as protected, personal political fiefdoms built-up with grant money (my interpretation).

And here's a OpEd from the MSM helping out their friends in education fight education reform: Perry's pal pressing his 'seven solutions'

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An instructive and recent example: Texas A&M has slowly been torqued away from being a strong conservative university to a more "normal" university -- just like the left likes 'em so they can "teach" the kids. Here is the last 2 paragraphs in the OpEd linked just above.

Sixteen years later, Rudder vowed as president of Texas A&M College to transform it from a second-rate school with declining enrollment into a first-class university. Rudder banished entrenched provincialism and never wavered from his conviction that an "immutable marriage" existed between teaching and research.

"It is not water or real estate or labor or power or cheap taxes alone that attracts industry," Rudder once said. "It's brainpower."

The "elite" see Americans as unrefined and provincial.

PROVINCIAL -- a person of local or restricted interests or outlook; a person lacking urban polish or refinement

Related to PROVINCIAL
Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, hick, rube, rustic, yokel

Antonyms: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

It might involve the $$$ being spent on research at major universities...I saw several letters to editors recently defending research and Perry's name was mentioned. I didn't read...just scanned the letters. It seemed that some profs were upset their playgrounds were about to be messed up.

Some college profs make big bucks for little time on the job...or so it seems.