Dr. Slammy for president in 2008
It’s time we put our future first, and that means getting serious – very serious – about ending the War on Education. We’ve spent decades digging a hole, and if we’re to climb out we’re going to have to rely on the ingenuity of the American mind. Sadly, those in charge have been doing all they can to stifle the kinds of learning reform we need, for reasons I have written about before.
You’re invited. The official Web site is coming soon, and in the meantime the campaign blog is up and running. You can get a basic overview there, and I’ll be posting the platform a chunk at a time over the coming days and weeks (the EdF1rst Statement of Principle went up this morning, in fact). Additionally, the official press release has been posted, and it tells you a bit about where I think we’re going. As I say at the blog site, this will be an evolutionary, fluid process – I want comment, I want feedback, I want ideas, because this is how the platform will grow.
Not all the ideas will be world-beaters originally, and frankly there are plenty of places where I don’t know nearly as much as I need to. But we’ll get there, and even if the worst case scenario emerges, we’ll still be worlds ahead of the Dems and GOP.
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lullaby pit 
I relate: been writing quite a bit on my site about education. Ours is an absolute joke. Our final highschool matric results just came out a few days ago and less than 16% of kids who wrote the state exam passed at a high enough level to be accepted into higher college education. Private schools had a 78% pass rate. And then there’s Oprah … http://www.whythawk.com/analysis/how-much-does-a-free-education-cost.html
Good luck 😉
I relate: been writing quite a bit on my site about education. Ours is an absolute joke. Our final highschool matric results just came out a few days ago and less than 16% of kids who wrote the state exam passed at a high enough level to be accepted into higher college education. Private schools had a 78% pass rate. And then there’s Oprah … http://www.whythawk.com/analysis/how-much-does-a-free-education-cost.html
Good luck 😉
Thanks. I’m tired of sounding like a geezer every time I start comparing how it is today with how it was when I went to school. No, I didn’t have to walk six miles through the snow uphill both ways, but the expectations were triple what they are today. And I can say that with authority because I know what I had to do for a class at Wake Forest in the early ’80s and I know what happened when my syllabi even pretended to that level of work a couple years ago.
Thanks. I’m tired of sounding like a geezer every time I start comparing how it is today with how it was when I went to school. No, I didn’t have to walk six miles through the snow uphill both ways, but the expectations were triple what they are today. And I can say that with authority because I know what I had to do for a class at Wake Forest in the early ’80s and I know what happened when my syllabi even pretended to that level of work a couple years ago.