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Friday, July 30, 2010

School Tech Connect: I Refudiate The Status Quo!

School Tech Connect: I Refudiate The Status Quo!

I Refudiate The Status Quo!

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Recapping The President's Education Priorities

When you come right down to it, it's about this: the currently in-power reform people want to spend less money on education. As for President Obama's recent comment that he wants to give more money to teachers (for test scores), well, that's not really what his coalition is about. You cannot be in a coalition with people whose domestic policy starts and ends with tax cuts for the wealthy and expect to give more money to public school teachers. It's a self-delusion that he's under, this President.

It's Not Change... It's Stupidity

Well, you have to give the President credit: he's standing by his positions and not trying to make everybody happy. My hat is off to him; he's declared war on teachers and is probably going to win. He sees the widespread criticism of RTTB as "natural resistance to change."
What he doesn't see is that it isn't change teachers and civil rights groups are opposing, it's the intensification of the same old thing: the preeminence of high-stakes bubble testing in every aspect of policy. He appears to be