Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Do you think the Obama administration is socialist?

I know, I know, inflammatory title.
There is a great new video up from the Center for American Progress discussing the administrations new education reforms.
If you think that the Obama administration has a completely socialist agenda, please watch the video. (It is less than 4 minutes)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yiBS0KKSbE

A couple of things that I noticed.
1) It gives a certain amount of credit to the "No Child Left Behind" program.
2) It gives schools a greater degree of control over their practices.

Let's think about this for a moment. No Child Left Behind dictated to schools nationwide that certain programs must exist and certain money must be spent on certain things. (We will tell you what your job is, what tools you must use, and how much money you will spend on them.)

The new program, based on my interpretation, will leave schools alone if they are performing. It only gets involved if the school is lacking. (We will only tell you what to do when it is proven that your system is not working)

Gee, which one of THOSE sounds better?

2 comments:

  1. Wow, Mark. Way to go. You found the MOST BORING woman EVER and posted a video of her on your blog. You should get an award or something.

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  2. Maybe so, but the message is there. Take a NoDoz and watch it again. You might learn something.

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