SOTU, en toto
I've been trying to figure out what to say about a State of the Union address that, on education at least, offered plenty of encouraging rhetoric but nothing new of substance.
I've been trying to figure out what to say about a State of the Union address that, on education at least, offered plenty of encouraging rhetoric but nothing new of substance.
Rhee, Ravitch, and others give their opinions on Obama's State of the Union address over at the New York Times?s Room for Debate. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
At Commentary?s blog, Contentions, Ted Bromund cuts up Obama's ?Sputnik moment? talk:
As we rhapsodize about the talents of Indian students, the country's burgeoning middle class, its phalanxes of engineers and its high-tech hubs, let us not forget that India is a country in which 421 million people are desperately poor (more destitute people there, in fact, than in all sub-Saharan Africa) and some 800 million depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.
While Obama certainly put education in the spotlight in the State of the Union Address, a few critics do some fact-checking.
If you're not at a rally for school choice, you might want to contribute to education in another way by answering some questions: Should
?Here in America, it's time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect. We want to reward good teachers and stop making excuses for bad ones'' * ?Barack Obama, President of the United States
If there's a Pulitzer nomination for investigative reporting worth making, it's the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the work its team of reporters has been doing on the Atlanta Public ?Schools cheating scandal.?
Paul Peterson at Ed Next has done a great job translating the President's State of the Union address comments on education into English?(here).
Referring to the Model T, Henry Ford famously said, ?A customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.? It turns out that Dr. Jerry Weast, the superintendent in Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live, feels the same way about school choice ?