On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:13:35PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > Where else is the additional money that many people (not necessarily > on this list) are saying is necessary to come from?
Do you read the messages in a thread before you reply to them? > What kind of Federal programs do you have in mind? Particularly ones > which will not raise taxes or add more bureaucracy? Merit-based awards to teachers; standards, training, and curriculum development for special-ed programs; devlopment of curricula and software for math, science, and programming classes including standardization on various types of free software (possibly writing or modifying to suit); perhaps some sort of "Voice of America"-driven specialized set of articles and discussions for teachers to choose from to help bring current events into the classroom; creation of forums and newsgroups for various educational disciplines, for students and teachers, to discuss their classes with others That's off the top of my head, I'm sure there are some problems with those, but hopefully you see the general idea. There are surely some things that can benefit from economies of scale and diversity that can be better achieved at the Federal level. Some things are better done locally, too, but not everything. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
