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To: pissant

Common sense appears to be quite uncommon. Good for Hunter!

And I like the following quite a bit:

>>>”I think we’re going to have to inspire young people at an early age to get into the sciences, to get into math, to get into the disciplines that will tend to support a prosperous America. And that means that we’re going to have to push back against the credentialing that the teachers unions have embedded in our system. I’d like to see an educational system where folks who are engineers and physicists and pilots and folks who have had a career, but who aren’t necessarily credentialed teachers, can come into schools and inspire young people. … [W]e need to [give] what I would call ‘a new generation of teachers’ access to the schools who are capable of inspiring this next generation of students.” <<<<

America’s schools are not producing what this country needs. Frankly, I’d be a solid supporter of funneling money away from sociology and the like and into engineering scholarships...


4 posted on 09/28/2007 3:47:25 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: CheyennePress

I’m not sure which is worse, the K-12 or the universities.


10 posted on 09/28/2007 3:58:49 PM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: CheyennePress
"America’s schools are not producing what this country needs" That's for sure, and the teacher education programs are full of state-mandated fluff courses instead of solid, objective, performance-based instruction. The teachers are forced to take fluff for certification, and the kids are instructed in fluff.
40 posted on 09/28/2007 8:18:58 PM PDT by fetal heart beats by 21st day (Defending human life is not a federalist issue. It is the business of all of humanity.)
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