Tag: Barack Obama
Obama Brags About ObamaCore in State of the Union Address
President Barack Obama discussed education in his State of the Union Address last night. Here are his remarks preK-12 education below: …But none of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs. And that has to start at the earliest possible age. You know, study [...]
Michelle Malkin is (Almost) Spot On
Michelle Malkin has made the Common Core State Standards the subject of her syndicated column this week which has been published not only on her own website, but at places like Townhall.com and National Review. Her first article is the first in a series on the Common Core so perhaps she’ll get to it. She [...]
8th Grade History Teacher: Stop the Common Core
By C.E. White This week, President Obama will be sworn into office as the 45th President of the United States of America. As a history teacher, I was elated to learn he would be placing his hand on two Bibles, one belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the other belonging to President Abraham [...]
President Obama Makes a Call….
Here is a strange story out of Idaho. Julie Nawrocki, who teaches math at Skyline High School in Idaho Falls, ID, was called by President Obama to ask her help develop the new testing standards and teaching strategies for schools in the states that are part of the Idaho’s consortium. Apparently this will take place [...]
Stanley Kurtz: Centralized Control of Curriculum Leads to Tyranny
Stanley Kurtz writing at National Review noted that parents are starting to wake up over the push for a national curriculum: Why does President Obama want your child to read “Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management” in school? It’s not the business of a president to shape your local school’s reading [...]
Arne Duncan in a Second Obama Term
Over at EdWeek Michele McNeil wrote about five issues facing Education Secretary Arne Duncan going into a 2nd Obama term. I wanted to highlight three of them: First the strings that came along with the No Child Left Behind waivers… Waivers: His crew has approved No Child Left Behind flexibility applications for 34 states plus [...]
Criticizing the One They Endorsed
It’s pretty fascinating to see people who fall all over themselves to endorse President Obama criticize him sharply on his education policies. We’re concerned about a federal take over of education where parents and local stakeholders will lose influence over education policy. They’re afraid of teachers losing their jobs. But Obama’s first term also saw [...]
Apparently Ravitch is No Longer Agnostic on the Common Core
Diane Ravitch endorsed President Barack Obama yesterday on CNN’s School of Thought Blog. Over the past three years, I have been an outspoken critic of the education policies of the Obama administration. In my view, Race to the Top is a disastrous program that is almost indistinguishable from the Bush administration’s failed No Child Left [...]
Education Under a Second Obama Term
Alyson Klein asks what would a second Obama term look like for education? Oh my… do we really have to go there? She points out what the Obama campaign said a campaign brochure that was released on Tuesday: Cutting tuition growth in half over the next ten years; recruiting and preparing at least 100,000 new [...]
The Common Core and Gun Violence
Well the second debate between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney didn’t offer much in the way of a discussion on education. That should be the case because their should be a minimal role, if anything, for the Federal government. It was probably just cut out because of time and other considerations. [...]



