Admist what is becoming a bucket full of examples of mindless teachers passing on their infatuation with Obama to students comes yet another example. Within New Jersey students were recently taught to sing "praises" of Obama's great accomplishments to the tunes of "Jesus Loves the Little Children" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." ...
By Lance Izumi In his first big education speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama tried to show that he is a reformer, and not a shell for the education special interests that dominate the Democratic Party. While he had a few worthwhile ideas, others sounded good until one turned to the details. “What’s required is ...
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-na-obama-education25-2009feb25,0,2871040.story?track=rss Los Angeles Times, by Frank James "Right now, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma," Obama said. "And yet, just over half of our citizens have that level of education. We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the students who ...
This week President-elect Obama, moved to nominate Chicago Public School's CEO, Arne Duncan as the Federal Government's Secretary of Education. While he has been heralded as a bi-lateral type of reformer in Chicago Public Schools, that school system still lags far behind the nation, and is only in the middle of the pack for urban ...
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