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(11,122 posts)by Madfloridian. Educate yourself. This isn't even a debatable issue.
This administration's education plan comes straight from bill bennet. The president's hand-picked (from his basketball buddies) Sec of Ed is a nasty piece of work who knows nothing about schools, teaching, or education. But he sides with the corporate ed crowd who make it a point to say how schooling should be cheaper, that corporations would do it better, and that the problem is that teachers and teacher unions are harming children. That has been the message sent out by gomer norquist and his minions since ronny reagan was the neo-conservative mouthpiece.
If you buy any of that message from arne duncan, you are flirting with the dark side. You can't mouth the same words and espouse the same goals of the far right and pretend to be a liberal. Those who buy arne's blather are either closet conservatives or they are too lazy to learn from anything but the media lies.
If you are serious about wanting to know what is wrong with doubling down on bush's NCLB, then I can point you to some resources. You won't find them in the mainstream media.