whitehouse.gov - 3/10/2009
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The President explains the urgency of changing the way we educate our children, and offers four pillars of reform.
thirdeducationgroup.org - 3/14/2009
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thirdeducationgroup.org —
Third Education Group® provides a forum for those
interested in education issues but put off by the...
education policy groups affiliated with the political parties. We aim to make a difference by remaining non-aligned and non-partisan. Learn more about ...
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Third Education Group
reason.com - 3/5/2009
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reason.com —
While researching this week's column , I was
struck by this passage about education in President Obama's...
recent speech to Congress (emphasis added): It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work. But it is the ...
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Ask Not What Your Education Can Do for You...
pundits.thehill.com - 3/18/2009
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pundits.thehill.com —
Not on your life. The recent hand-wringing about
whether President Obama’s “plate is too full” couldn’t have...
it more wrong. The argument goes as follows: The economic troubles are so staggering, and the problems so complex, that any attempt to deal ...
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Is Obama Taking on Too Much?
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It seems to me... Obama "Don't know much about history."
AMERICAN DIGEST —
... President Roosevelt didn’t have the luxury of choosing between ending a depression and fighting a war. President Kennedy didn’t have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and sending us to the moon. -- Obama to "the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce" ...
Obama's Gift on Education
Sound Politics —
... , were remarks thematically similar to that which could have been given by George W. Bush. The true test, however, will come in the details of the policy proposals ultimately pursued. As we've seen in recent weeks, Obama's actual policies haven't exactly matched his past rhetoric (whatever happened to going "line-by-line" through the budget?). Meanwhile, Obama's explicit discussion and backing of merit pay continues to give local GOP candidates a huge opening. Successful Republican legislative candidates, running in targeted races last fall, began a positive shift from recent ...
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