Obama Plays Bait-and-Switch on "No Child Left Behind":
"On the campaign trail, candidate Obama orated repeatedly, '... don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of the year preparing him to fill in a few bubbles on a standardized test,' and 'Tests should not be designed as punishment for teachers and students... Tests should support learning, not just accounting.'
Yet, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, an Obama basketball buddy from Chicago, recently announced the department's first big initiative: the 'Race to the Top' initiative, which will award $4.3 billion in federal grants 'to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers,' per the New York Times."
"On the campaign trail, candidate Obama orated repeatedly, '... don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of the year preparing him to fill in a few bubbles on a standardized test,' and 'Tests should not be designed as punishment for teachers and students... Tests should support learning, not just accounting.'
Yet, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, an Obama basketball buddy from Chicago, recently announced the department's first big initiative: the 'Race to the Top' initiative, which will award $4.3 billion in federal grants 'to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers,' per the New York Times."
