Secretary Duncan, Gingrich, & Sharpton talk Education Reform on 'Meet the Press'

RACE TO THE TOP = privatizing education. Since when are corporate leaders experts in education?

Education must be improved, but when you use school choice, lotteries and competition as your vehicle to improve education, you remove students' with motivated families from the most impoverished and toughest schools.

Will the new charter schools have higher test scores? Give me a break. Of course they will. They have kids from motivated families. Once again, the poorest kids are left behind!

But I'll agree. Family before resources.

If mom and/ dad cannot light a fire under their child's ass, the kid is going to text for 15 minutes in the bathroom every class/ in class.

Negate homework etc etc etc.

They won't understand the importance and they will treat education exactly so.

So I agree. They should withhold this money and first educate parents on how to do their job and get their children educated.

I like your statement in part.

Yes American families are failing.

But also,

Yes the school systems in some areas are slanted in terms of delivering grade "a" teaching.

Wherever the pattered deficit is, that is where over-qualified psychologists/teachers need to step in early. Have them form the child's mind for 5 years. You'd be amazed what a psychologist can do with a hardened mind, much less a pliable one

Testing can also be done to discern exactly where the low scores are coming from. .