Ted Kennedy Urges More Money for Education

[kerrygoddess]

Ted Kennedy Urges More Money for Education
August 27th, 2005

Millions of parents across the country are getting their kids ready to go back school.

George W. Bush chose to speak on the war in Iraq today, in his weekly radio address, rather than focus on the needs at home for a few moments. Of course, the news earlier this week that Connecticut is challenging NCLB, is most likely something that Bush would prefer not to discuss.

Ted Kennedy, chose to use the Democratic Party’s radio address today to lobby for more federal money for education.

“We need our Republican colleagues to join us in giving education the high priority that it deserves at the national level,” said Kennedy, the senior Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees education.

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[VPStoltz]

1. He's a traitor.

Kennedy was thee no. 1 Dem sponsoring No Child Left Behind. As a teacher, I can tell it has caused more problems than it could ever solve.

[kerrygoddess]

2. Spare us all... please

With the Kennedy is a traitor bull shit!

[VPStoltz]

3. Not really bull on this issue.

[kerrygoddess]

4. The unforgiving nature of some

will help to undo the democratic party.

[VPStoltz]

5. Oh, please!

I practically when bankrupt sending money to Kerry in 2004. When something a Dem. does that effects my life adversely - I think I have a right to say something about it. Kennedy was wrong to let NCLB get by in the form it was. The law is flawed and my colleagues and I are suffering the results. If he is successful in getting the money to fund the program like should have been done in the first place ( and yes that was Bush's fault), that will be feather in his cap.

[kerrygoddess]

6. We're all hurting...

Complaining don't help.

Especially complaining about those trying to fix things. Maybe you might take a few moments and read the entire post, I have a kid in public school. I applaude Ted Kennedy for trying to do something about this.

[wli]

7. and does any of it involve getting content ramped up?

Or is it just going to be drilling on bonehead arithmetic for a decade and 2 years and skimming propaganda pieces trying to pass themselves off as history books?

[kerrygoddess]

8. Huh?

Not sure what your point is?

[wli]

9. I'll keep things down to a minimum to cut down on noise

1. Other countries start foreign language learning early to capitalize on developmental psychological discoveries about foreign language learning. The US' foreign language literacy and fluency levels are pretty low.

2. Mathematical sophistication is obscenely low. There are all kinds of statistical studies on this, but anecdotally, I see things like Hungarian high school students doing some rather serious real analysis that stumps US grad students for weeks on end. Algebra is taught late, calculus is optional where it's mandatory elsewhere, and topics covered in the most mathematically advanced nations during compulsory education are relegated to math major -only courses in university educations.

3. As far as history goes, what I remember of having gone through history paints a story drastically different and incredibly broader than anything in the US. So much so, that it's difficult to characterize what goes on as far as history textbook content as a deliberate narrowing of the scope of discussion and a general whitewashing of the nature of human history.

There is quite a bit more to go over, but what really wants/needs to be discussed in my take on things is that there is no plan observable to me to upgrade the "intellectual standard" to which compulsory education is held.