Posted on 03/11/2010 12:10:20 PM PST by foutsc
It's The Education, Stupid!
Evan Thomas, in an otherwise useless Newsweek article, observes:
Grade inflation is so out of control in the nation's high schools that 43 percent of college-bound seniors taking the SATs have A averageseven though SAT scores have remained flat or drifted slowly downward for years.The Federal Government Killed our Education System
Over 200 years ago, the nation's Founders understood that federal intervention into state, local, and family concerns like education would be futile. They knew that the federal government would be too distant and unwieldy to solve problems in the nation's diverse cities, towns, and hamlets.Diversity Killed the Health Care Bill
It's a major reason why the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution declares that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people," and why the Constitution makes no mention of education at all. (CATO - Neal McCluskey)
A WHOOOOOOTTT and yee-ha for an excellent article.
Didn’t know about the 1965 act. Since that was the year I started in kindergarten and was quickly bored to tears in subsequent years, I understand your premise.
Thanks. At least one person liked it!
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