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Education activists, including the community organizer in the White House, look at the ruin that public education has become and want to expand it.

We may now have to face the possibility that entire fields of study have been inflated beyond their value.

Left and right might actually agree more often if the former too the time to understand the latter.

If you find recent college graduates to be computationally challenged (i. e., unable to do basic math), don’t expect that to change anytime soon.

Stopped clocks can be right twice a day. So can academics. But in neither case can they tell the difference between AM and PM.

Ayers and his allies used the “critical policy area” of education, and through four aims: “local school councils,” small schools, social justice teaching, and payment of reparations through education spending.

When initial White House visitor logs were released in 2009, the administration quickly dismissed speculations about visits by “William Ayers.”

Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes.

Arguably America’s public schools worked better when there were truly local. Yet a series of U. S. presidents—Republican and Democratic—have added even more centralization to the schools.

The education system in the United States has been failing miserably, and while present school choice programs have been successful in providing only C grade reforms, the greenfield school model offers hope for A+ improvements.

Now it’s Barack Obama’s turn at bat at the department of Education and we are looking at more expensive strikeouts.

On the face of it, Democratic President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top education policy is cheaper for American taxpayers than Republican President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind.