Weekly Address: Education for a More Competitive America & Better Future

The President discusses his blueprint for an updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act to overhaul No Child Left Behind, the latest step from his Administration to encourage change and success in Americas schools at the local level.

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• Obama
• Weekly Address
• Education
• No Child Left Behind
• Arne Duncan

[profjunk]

Some of the comments on this page are all the proof I need that American education needs to be better.

[lighttech1142]

hmmm, one would think the lack of correct spelling of very simple words and horrible sentence structure in the majority of these comments would be reason enough to reform the education system. You say the white house is sucking at running the country, but they're sure as hell beating you in spelling right now. lets see... who would you rather have in charge of educating your children? good spellers? or really shitty spellers?

[goblue21450]

the feds recently passed a bill that gives the government control of the textbook companies, which in turn control what we learn. the government now chooses which textbooks we use, the price of textbooks and also the content wthin them. the common conspiracy is that they are making us less intelligent so they can get us to vote for a socialist society.....just think national healthcare, where have we seen that before.......

we''ll end up just like canada.....



[surfjerr]

when has this liar told the truth? Im trying to make it easy to answer the question at hand. Hows that change going for ya?

[PianoForteAndrew]

in this video: how to speak for 6 minutes without saying anything.

charter schools mr obama, the answer is staring you in the face.

competition for funds is a step in the right direction, but i thought you wanted to 'race' to the top, not slowly stumble there.

[blurbum9]

Watching this whole video i realized he didn't really say anything.. It was all politics, saying that the education of our children is important and he talked about what use to make us great but not what is going to make us great again or what we are going to do about it. He really only put forth one thing that they plan to do to fix this, overhauling no child left behind.. hoo fucking raaw.. we're all saved..

Reward good schools not bad ones, make them compete for their funding. SCHOOL CHOICE!

[1ALQALLAF]

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[harryman11]

I think he misses the point with better schools, I believe all that is really needed are good teachers, as a student I have seen first hand what a bad teacher can do to good equipment. Some of our good teachers were hired away and replaced by crap ones. Between the teachers they had the same facilities at their disposal, But the difference was in the teacher. Also over specific rules and drug dogs going around school doesn't help school spirit, it makes it seem like us vs them not a community.

[eathenicus]

@profjunk Bro, I believe that most folks believe they don't have to use English on the Internet, because of anonymity. They do this on purpose.

[hegemon219]

@mbhcimlay

or at least provide a system through which the parents, not bureacreats have the power to decide what type of education their children receives.

[hegemon219]

@musicmaniacbobsmith

The new deal didn't do anything to get the US out of the Great Depression. If anything it just pushed us further into the depression. This is borne out by the fact that in 1936 the small increase prompted by the New Deal caused a second dip in the economy which pushed the economy further down than it had been previously. Private incentives, like using parents wishes, are a much better way of improving education and everything else in the economy, not goverment handouts.