Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Diane Ravitch doesn’t like much of the education legislation proposed by members of the NC General Assembly.  She doesn’t like it at all.  In a recent blog post, she pleads, “Will Secretary [of Education Arne] Duncan or President Obama hurry to North Carolina and urge the legislators to stop their assault on public education? TheContinue Reading

The White House Blog has a post titled “What You Need to Know About President Obama’s Plan to Provide High-Quality Early Education for All Children.”  Frankly, the blog post does not provide what we need to know about President Obama’s preschool plan.  Specifically, it is not clear who will be eligible to receive this newContinue Reading

From the 2013 State of the Union Address, Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road.  But today, fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program.  Most middle-class parents can’t afford a few hundred bucks a weekContinue Reading

Today, Education Week published a ridiculous “fact check” of Mitt Romney’s education speech.  It is historic – historically bad. The writer starts her “fact check” with a bang, “In his speeches, President Obama likes to tell us, ‘We can’t wait,’ Romney told the crowd at the Latino Coalition’s Small Business Summit Luncheon in Washington. “IfContinue Reading

By now, many have seen (actually listened to) the video of the Rowan County teacher who scolds a student for “disrespecting” President Obama. Just in case you haven’t, here it is: The worst part of this incident is that the teacher let ideology and emotion get in the way of a potentially valuable opportunity toContinue Reading

The following chart is from The White House’s Education Blueprint: An Economy Built to Last report (p. 14):  

The following is a memo from teachers at Tipps Elementary School in Houston, TX (courtesy of The Blaze): Attached is a chant about President Barack Obama.  All Kindergarteners will be required to learn the chant for the Black History program.  Please write how many you will need.  Keep one copy to practice with students atContinue Reading

In a Forbes op-ed, Kyle Smith, who is a film critic and current-affairs columnist for The New York Post, imagines what a Krugman/Obama business venture would look like.  Smith writes, We’ll begin from scratch. What kind of business shall we launch? Clearly it should be domestic manufacturing, because our goal is to create lots ofContinue Reading