Education Minnesota At Work PDF Print E-mail
Written by Speed Gibson   
Tuesday, 16 September 2008 08:35
I really need to visit The Brad Carlson Blog more often, so I've added it to my blog roll.

He has posted pictures of laminated placards for the Obama and Franken campaigns, produced by Education Minnesota for its local stewards to distribute via their school mail slots. (Is this legal, campaigning on government property, on government time?)

Both promise to "reform" (meaning eviscerate) No Child Left Behind, and "fully fund" what's left. They also agree on something else.
  • Obama: "Use multiple measures, not just tests, to show student progress."
  • Franken: "Give schools and educators more flexibility in measuring student achievement."
This is code language for more social promotion, dumbing down, and/or grade inflation, all variants of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

In other words, they promise to spend still more to get predictably negative results. And we'll have an even harder time proving it.

Cross-posted at Speed Gibson. Comments welcome.