bgheff wrote:
For comedic purposes, I would love to see you try and explain the logic you used to make the connection with supporting reform of public education by lessening the impact of leftwing academia as being a hypocrital position for those who support capitalism. Give us your best shot.
Because the method of reform with NCLB was socialistic. I don't see how it had any effect on lessening left-wing academia. Kebin, do you really think NCLB has improved education?




Your response seems to indicate you are misusing the term "socialistic" to describe the reforms. What exactly do you believe these reforms to be and how exactly does that make them "socialistic". One of the specific reforms is "accountability". That principal is about as conservative as you can get.

BTW leftwing academia are the ones responsible for changing the focus of public education away from core studies like reading, writing, arithmetic and into social engineering. Remember Bill Ayers and what he has been doing for the past 30 years or so?

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0423ss.html

http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_ed_school.html

IAlso, the facts clearly indicate standardized test scores nationwide have increased since NCLB was enacted.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/06/17/36cep.h28.html

Also, "improved education" is a subjective term. To a leftist like Bill Ayers, NCLB has made education worse since it attempts to disrupt their social engineering indoctrination. To a conservative, NCLB has improved education because it helps prevent federal tax dollars from getting wasted on public schools systems that do shitty jobs of actually teaching their students.

BTW to all of you supporting vouchers, that is a pipe dream. The GOP would need a supermajority in the Senate plus control of the House and the presidency to overcome a Democrat filibuster of using federal funds for a public school voucher system. The teacher's union abhors the voucher system so you know the Democrats will never support it, even though it has been proven to be a huge success.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702216.html

Despite its success, Obama and the Democrats in Congress killed off the Washington DC voucher program in the omnibus spending bill last year: http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/31/democrats-officially-kill-successful-dc-voucher-program/

The more voters in poverty the better for the Democrats so you know deep down inside they don't really want students from low income families to get smarter.