hypocritexposer
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Obama's Education Reform
Obama says the best way to improve the nation's education system is with more money and more reform.
Answering questions at the first online town hall from the White House, Obama said Thursday that greater investment in early childhood education and rewarding talented teachers would significantly improve the system.
Well, finally, Obama is addressing something he knows about -- "education reform."
From 1995 to 1999, Obama served as co-chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) -- his partner was the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers,
Obama became the leader of an ambitious project to remake (Change?) the public schools of Chicago. This was a big test for him. It was his chance to bring hope and change to the mostly minority inner city school children trapped in Chicago schools.
The "Small Schools" movement was heavily funded by CAC. The program focused on individual schools built around specific political themes to push students to "confront issues of inequity, war, and violence."
The teacher education programs served as "sites of resistance" to an oppressive system.
The point, said Ayers in his "Teaching Toward Freedom," is to "teach against oppression" -- against America's history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation.
Well, Obama flopped big time. He squandered $110 million (including over $60 million in public funds) and the time of many public employees on a project that yielded no discernable result.
The Final Technical Report of the Chicago Annenberg Research Project is available. From its abstract:
"Results suggest that among the schools it supported, the Challenge had little impact on school improvement and student outcomes, with no statistically significant differences between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain, classroom behavior, student self-efficacy, and social competence."
The students didn't improve academically, but they are all now ACORN workers and doing their best to destroy an evil, racist, warmongering America. So, from Obama and Ayer's perspective, the project was a total success.
Now, Obama wants to nationalize his program, so all of America's children can learn about America's history of evil and racism -- thereby forcing social transformation -- and he's going to use your tax dollars to do it.
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/09/021584.php