Some subscribers to TIPS and TeachEdPsych might be interested in
"G.O.P. Anti-Federalism Aims at Education" [Gabriel (2011)], online
at <http://nyti.ms/oCAIGA>.
Gabriel writes:
"Representative Michele Bachmann promises to 'turn out the lights' at
the federal Education Department. Gov. Rick Perry calls it
unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, would
allow it to live but only as a drastically shrunken agency that
mainly gathers statistics. Even Mitt Romney, who in 2008 ran for
president defending No Child Left Behind, the federal law that vastly
expanded Washington's role in public schools, now says, 'We need to
get the federal government out of education.' . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .
The question is whether states and local districts, without
Washington's various carrots and sticks, will continue (sic) to raise
academic standards and give equal opportunity to traditionally
ignored student populations. 'People want government money, they want
higher standards, they want greater accountability,' said Chester E.
Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a
conservative-leaning education policy group, who was an education
official in the Reagan administration. 'None of those things in most
places comes from local control.' "
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the
Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
<[email protected]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com>
<http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake>
REFERENCE
Gabriel, T. 2011. "G.O.P. Anti-Federalism Aims at Education," New
York Times, 8 Oct; online at <http://nyti.ms/oCAIGA>.
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