Arne Duncan Reacts to the Citizen's Briefing Book

Arne Duncan, Secretary-designate of Education, responds to some of the top ideas submitted to the Citizen's Briefing Book. Go to http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov and submit your own ideas.

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[makilgore06]

Awesome! If any of these measures about future teachers become reality, I will switch my major to education and get my master cert in education. If and only if...

[Flanole]

The weakest part of Obama's "change" program is education policy. Charter schools and vouchers are code for undermine public schools. Just because you have talent in a field does not mean you have the skill to teach it. No Child Left Behind has only added paperwork to over burdened teachers and not helped meeting the needs of educating students. Just because someone sat in a classroom does not give them the ability to teach. We increase teacher paperwork and cut budgets--dropouts increase. ETC.

[planetjordan]

I am a certified physics / chemistry teacher and have started an energy / conservation business that should create jobs and hopes to be a working model for "National Sustainable Policy". On a practical level, we do energy audits and upgrades. I like what I've heard from Sec. elect Duncan and President elect Obama, and would like to help implement this type of sustainable education and infrastructure on the state, regional and national level. We'll keep going. It'd be better large scale. Peace,

[Blackhalo325]

Asking the federal government to fix a problem that it created is not the right way. It's just going to be more paperwork, promises, and money thrown at the problem.

[akasaart]

the inability to "get away with" it is merely an delusion of the political players

if a politician were to use their power to enact legalization, they would be met with much resistance and criticism during the shift

shortly thereafter however, the virtues of legalization would become blatantly obvious to the whole world

so basically, the irony of politicians' fear of legalization is in the fact that it would actually boost their careers through it's great success

[EyeLean5280]

Legalization is like opening up relations with Communist China - it's something only a conservative president could get away with.

[EyeLean5280]

Sorry voyeurdug, I wholeheartedly disagree.

The military is full of people who have signed up for the military. In other words, you have a self-selected group of people whose personalities fit in with military culture and can thrive on military-style training.

It simply won't work for the population at large.

[EyeLean5280]

Well, not really. Other advanced economies (Britain and Japan for example) are having the same problems we are. (In the case of Japan, the problem is hidden by the fact that the weakest students are told to stay home on national test days.)

Yes, our education system needs to make a lot of changes, but it's not just the system. It's also the other two sides of the education triangle - the parents and the students.

[todnyc]

stay in Barbados, ho!

[jenshoe]

The education field has lost many EXCELLENT teachers due to the lack of pay compared to other fields. We are also losing many EXCELLENT teachers because teachers are getting burned out with all the demands of NCLB. Schools that are succeeding have the outside support of the community along with the education system. Educating our children is all of our responsibilities and not just the schools.

[jeanjadespring]

the country needs definitively new lamps, what i see in these propaganda films is deplorable, looks like ages ago styles. new lamps!

[tklelmo21]

Plain and simple higher salary and great expectations from teachers will simply do the trick. Teachers have to remember y they are there and if they can't get kids to pass thier clases they don't have a job, we need new ways to challenge the minds of our youth. Children who are 3 and 4 know 10xs the information as i did when i was younger but out education system is still teaching that curriculum of 10 years ago..shame bush left all the children behind..