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Friday, September 23. 2011

Abolish the federal Dept of Ed

Via a piece at Protein of the above title:

The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reserves to the states all powers not delegated to the federal government. For most of our nation’s history, education was considered preeminent among those reserved powers, and for good reason. Teaching and learning are quintessentially local activities—the thought never would have occurred to our founders that a bureaucrat in Washington is more capable than parents or teachers of creating an educational plan appropriate for an individual child.

I heartily agree with the whole thing.

Posted by The Barrister at 13:13 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Tie its budget to reliable performance metrics.

#1 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2011-09-23 14:44 (Reply)

But why?

#1.1 Ten on 2011-09-23 15:57 (Reply)

Obviously, to provide a fig leaf for shutting them down, since they obviously would fail to meet any positive performance goal.

#1.1.1 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2011-09-23 16:17 (Reply)

Oh yes, abolish it! it's done too much damage. The cost of a college education might even have been reasonable if it didn't exist. But education will not improve until Departments of Education in colleges and universities are abolished and teachers have to major in a subject, rather than in eduction.

#2 The Elephant's Child (Link) on 2011-09-23 16:56 (Reply)

Locally directed education has not existed for some time. Curricula are remarkably similar nationwide and I think if you look carefully, you'll see that national standards have essentially been set by the NEA. Is that better than national standards set by the Education Department?

#3 lhf on 2011-09-24 06:22 (Reply)

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Abolish the federal Dept of Ed