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Obama thinks that No Child Left Behind can be saved. I don't think it can. I think it needs to be repealed, period. There are too many problems with NCLB that cannot be solved with more money (though that is the deepest flaw, that NCLB hasn't been properly funded since the beginning). We have moved our educational system towards testing as the standard, and in doing so, have changed our classroom curriculum to fit that. Schools teach to the test, and they teach students how to take the test. Unfortunately, this results in robot-students receiving a standardized, monocultural message from robot-teachers. It removes a teacher's ability to actually TEACH, and turns students from kids into test scores. Quite frankly, the entire concept of NCLB is dehumanizing for both teacher and student. Why would we want a law that accomplishes all of this on the books? Even the UK, where serious standardized testing has long been the norm, is trying to move away from such testing. Why? Because research shows it does not work. Teaching to a test and testing students fails to teach students to think critically.
I also support nuclear power and disagree with his vote for Telco immunity.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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