Obama’s faulty education logic: What he said and failed to say
Someone should have told President Obama that there were important contradictions in the education portion of his State of the Union address before he delivered it to Congress. First, Obama rightly said that a child’s education starts at home: “It’s family that first instills the love of learning in a child. Only parents can make sure the TV is turned off and homework gets done.” Then why is his administration insisting in pushing policies that evaluate and pay teachers based solely on how well they raise the test scores of their children? How can teachers be solely responsible for what happens to a child outside of school?
