The country’s education system was modeled on the needs of the 19th and early 20th centuries to ready a workforce for industrialization. The mission has changed but the model hasn’t. Bravo to this school for its success! After school programs and family resource centers are a huge step forward toward crafting an educational system more in tune with the 21st century. Families are structured quite differently than they were in 1900. Any educational model needs to address the needs of the TOTAL family, not just a student in a seat.

We are wasting our time with this right now. Obama has an election coming up in 2 years and will not touch this hot button. Duncan will be replaced after the election and we will be starting all over again.
Another broken campaign promise to get rid of “No Child Left Behind”

It’s not President Obama who is not for better education, the radical republican party of no who won’t even bring some positive to the table on this issue.

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