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.” My educated guess is that the students in this video do not know the following… (more…)
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What is Education Coming Too?
Friday, September 25th, 2009Obama’s Education “Reforms”
Saturday, March 28th, 2009By 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 not simply new investments, but new reforms,” President Obama told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Some of his reform ideas did address important needs, such as longitudinal student performance data from “childhood through college.” He rightly pointed out that such data can “tell us which students had which teacher so we can assess what’s working and what’s not.”
Obama puts spotlight on education…
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Source: 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 begin college never finish.”
Here’s a difficult question… “Why?” Why might it be the case in the United States that we have 2 large issues with dropout rates at the secondary and collegiate levels?”
The Chicago-ization of America’s Schools
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008This 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 education environments.
Some concerns of those in the field of education, may stem from the fact that Mr. Duncan has neither a degree in education, nor has he ever been a teacher in any sort of capacity. His base degree is a B.A. in sociology from Harvard, and as many educators would readily admit, a sociology degree does not lend itself to an accurate view of the issues facing the world of education. Mr. Duncan’s noteriety was recieved as the Director of the Ariel Education Initiative, a non-profit on the south-side of Chicago. Unfortunately, this post was most likely gained due to his life-long relationship with the foundation’s founder John Roger’s Jr. From their he gained the post of the Deputy Chief of Staff for the CPS in 1998, and then rose to succeed Paul Vallas.
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