Federal Education Policy with Former Assistant Secretary of Education Bill Evers

Does the Obama Administration want to create a national education policy akin to France's Ministry of Education? According to Bill Evers, Former US Assistant Secretary of Education and current Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, that is exactly what they are attempting to do.

Evers sat down with Reason Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward to discuss current federal education policy, the role of the Department of Education, and synonyms for "school vouchers."

Approx. 7:20 minutes.

Edited by Meredith Bragg. Camera by Meredith Bragg and Josh Swain.

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[elricmlbone]

How about we just close down the department of education.

[EconomicLiteracyNow]

Closing down the DOE is long overdue, and there couldn't be a better moment. No more budget talks until all bloated overspending bureaucracies are on the chopping block! Take the Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Labor and Dept. of Agriculture along with them. Abolish NLRB and defund EPA. Then defund all Obamacare implementation.

[beta447]

"Opportunity Scholarship" = complete and utter bullshit. Nothing but another guilty euphemism.

[shotsky94]

a ron paul video brought me here

[exiledconservative]

The federal government has no right being involved in our kids' education (among many other things)..shut them down? I say secession is the only solution. Form smaller, local republics. How can a congressman represent 750,000 individuals with varying views..it doesn't work. Secede now. -Libertarian

[DaddyRTO]

@imasciencegeek Lame. Unless the word "national" is followed by "defense" the word is worthless. "National standards" deny parents the right to have their children learn what they want them to learn.

[DaddyRTO]

@Qillz Not if it's left up to local governments to decide. Hell, they could even write their own textbooks in some of the more well-off areas of the country. That way, people could decide more closely what their kids are learning and if parents didn't like the majority opinion, they could move. The way it works now, no such luck.

[imasciencegeek]

Education is such a complicated monster, and our children are caught in the crossfire. The national standards are an anchor.

[jpmsagan]

@Qillz There is a fundamental flaw in your argument. What happens when the evangelicals get to the national level and set the standards for the entire nation?

Giving parents a choice on where they want their children educated is the solution not forcing parents to send their children to whatever school is in their district.

[Qillz]

Without a national standard, we remain at the mercy of conservative evangelicals in Texas who are now rewriting history textbooks to remove the term "slavery" and glorify the political impact of the religious right. These fundamentalists are also attempting to introduce supernatural explanations into science textbooks along side proven fact as if the 2 explanations are equally viable.

Texas is the largest market, so if they get their way, they set the national standard!

[Somespatanwarrior]

@RodCornholio That would be nice if it could close down so I could stop paying attention to politics and get on with my life.

[RodCornholio]

Shutdown the entire government (other than what is necessary to keep ONLY violent prisoners caged up) for 2 years (that way, people have at least 1 year of no taxes). If Americans think it's still necessary, they can always re-open it.

I'd wage my life, fortune and sacred honor that such an experience would fundamentally alter people's perceptions on the necessity of the beast.