"Race to the Top" or "Falling on Your Face"
Bush's "No Child Left Behind" limits and often times prevents instructors from teaching ALL students the given subject matter. Obama's "Race to the Top" will enforce this nonsense by firing the teachers for their students low test scores. They both apparently believe test scores are the way to the top and that the teachers are solely responsible. If competition and winning equates to higher intelligence maybe we should consider an ALL STAR football player for president. Who would have known that Bush and Obama were so compatible?
"Race to the Top" is even a more ridiculous moniker than "No Child Left Behind." It is quite clear that neither Bush nor 'Bama actively read any educational research. Bush is obvious, literally a "no brainer." He lacks the ability to sythesize, hence his tragically failed efforts in education and war. Well, just basic common knowledge, too like saying, "Wow, Brazil is big," when in Brazil looking at a map. 'Bama likes to instill the illusion as though he actively researches, but it is quite obvious that anybody with a descent sense of how the brain learns would never create an educational program named "Race to the Top." The word race is a very poor choice on many levels. People are individuals and have unique learning ideosyncracies, paces, language levels and other variables that come into play in educational scenarios. Indeed the terms are compatible, actually components of each other. Racing to the top will leave children behind. It already has.
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