Comments on: Northup’s ‘Reading First’ a Huge Failure

By: Steve Magruder (I, not D or R)

Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:11:34 +0000

It always seems that Republicans, when they do set up government programs, design them to fail so as to teach a lesson that government programs always fail, even though that’s not the truth.

By: askquestions

askquestions — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:32:54 +0000

No child left behind – they should rename the thing and call it we don’t know what the hell we are doing or every child left behind. Crazy. My kids will never go to public school, the US doesn’t have a real desire to educate children. I can’t stand the idea of some loud mouth PTA attendees deciding which books to ban.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:50:46 +0000

The federal government has no business messing with elementary education. It just forces local schools to spend money trying to comply with unfunded mandates. The way to improve education is to allow good teachers to receive merit bonuses. But the unions will never allow it.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:22:59 +0000

Look up any program like this and you’ll find positive and negative reviews. Finding what you want is called cherrypicking.

By: David Adams

David Adams — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:55:38 +0000

I went to a meeting of small-government Republicans recently and before we walked into the broom closet where the meeting was to be held we were talking about the good old days when the GOP wanted to shut down the Department of Education and keep the control local. Seems like a million years ago. Here in Kentucky we get enough waste, fraud, and abuse from the Kentucky Department of Education. Inviting the feds in to incentivize more dumbing down was certain to lead to stories like this.

By: Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:53:49 +0000

Proof that even when repugs have the rare good intention, their fundamental hatred and distrust of government always – always – results in failure.