Andrew Keen’s question in his essay, The Internet Is Bad For You, at The Daily Beast, “…wouldn’t it be better to invest that money in local libraries and librarians, where their education could be supervised by accountable human beings?”, brought to mind a few counterpoints on the subject of libraries.
I was informed by a [...]
“Education is a state function. The more state it is, and the less federal it is, the better off we are.”
Merit pay for teachers “could be demeaning and discouraging, and who would decide” who would receive it, Senator Hillary Clinton said in a meeting with teachers at Cunningham Elementary in Waterloo, Iowa. “It would open a whole lot of problems.”
An even bigger problem is the fact that teachers have absolutely no incentive to perform above [...]
“It’s pretty popular to bash No Child Left Behind out on the campaign trail, but when it was being debated in Congress four years ago, my colleague Dick Durbin offered a chance to vote so that the law couldn’t be enforced unless it was fully funded. A lot of senators, including Senator Edwards and [...]