Failure of liberal education policies on clear display in Washington, D.C. March 14, 2009 Examiner.com (Excerpt) One needn't look any further than the nation's capital to see the disastrous results of liberal education policies on the school system from top to bottom. As just this week Allen Sessoms, President of the University of District of Columbia, outlined plans to shut down the school's failing undergraduate Department of Education. As, according to the liberal run schools own data, only 7 to 8 percent of the students enrolled in the program have graduated from it within six (6) years. And in the early childhood major only four (4) to six (6) of the approximately 150 students graduate each year. Examiner.com The US was ranked number one in Education until the creation of the US DEPT of ED now we are what 27th and some of you want to toss even more money into the pit --------smooth move rainbows
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The conservative way, leave it to the free market? Is that what Bush did with no child left behind?
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A future generation of dummies and dancing with the stars watchers.
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No. Nowhere does it mention what they consider to be "liberal education policies." It's not the U of DC's "liberal policies;" professors said that is primarily because many students cannot pass a national standardized test of basic high school-level reading, writing and math skills. (Also, the statistics includes those who transfer to other schools.) If you want to change this, support more funding, much more funding, for our schools. Pay teachers more so the good ones will stay. Education is the silver bullet that effects everything.
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About what are you babbling? Uh, ONE university is shutting down ONE department. I see no reason to assume the department's low graduation rate is due to "Feds" or Dems. (How can Dems be responsible, when they've been out of power most of the time for decades?) How is that ONE dept in ONE univ the entire educational system of the entire country?
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Yes, again when you get the government and then throw in the Unions you have a recipe for disaster. Our schools have become some of the worst. I do no believe that throwing more money at a problem is the answer. School vouchers is good for those students that do want to learn but can not, the classrooms are to disruptive and the teachers can not teach, many fear for their lives. But they get a freakin paycheck to babysit these kids. It all has to do with the parents and the school working together but boy do they have a failure to communicate. That is why many kids go to private school or are home schooled. You actually have a chance to learn or you get thrown out. Money will not bring us up the education scale. Strict rules and no coddling is what they need. Alternative schools to get the bad apples out. Teachers need to teach the basics and keep their opinions to themselves.
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I have yet to see the correct measures taken when it comes to any thing the Fed has their hands in especially Education
