[shrinkermd]

This is an interesting editorial on education. This is especially true since there has been bitter denunciation of the President's educational efforts both on the right and the left.

[livius]

It is interesting. Someone (conservative, I think, although the right is getting so close to the extreme left now that it's hard to tell) sent me a rant about this very thing the other day.

It was indeed a rant, and I couldn't figure out what there was not to like about higher standards. In fact, I couldn't figure out her point at all.

What exactly is it that "conservatives" don't like about this proposal?

[Sam Cree]

"The solution, they say, is to adopt rigorous national standards that will turn the high school diploma into a "common national currency."

They may as well recommend trashing our Constitution and converting to a benevolent dictatorship. It would probably work better as long as the dictator remained both wise and benevolent. In other words, briefly, if at all.

[sgtbono2002]

If you push for higher standards you are going to fail a lot of minorities. That just aint going to be permitted.

[OXENinFLA]

I think they are leaving this out of the equation, just as they did when the DoE was formed.

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Amendment X

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.

[Gritty]

They could solve most of the problem in these ways:

1. Vouchers

2. McGuffey's Readers

3. Saxon Math

4. Eliminate large teacher's Unions

5. Eliminate the Federal Department of Education

6. Merit based promotion of students

7. Eliminate "compulsory" education at age 12 while opening up the "minimum wage" and apprentice job market to teenagers

8. Eliminate today's awful Politically Correct study curriculums and student climate and replace with "American", not socialist, models (see #2,3 above)

... in other words, return to the things we used to do many years ago which made the American secondary education system one of the finest in the world, and add the benefits of technology.

[BnBlFlag]

This is merely another excuse to continue the left's ongoing program of federalizing education.
Federal standards?.....We don't need no steeken federal standards!