Enforcing School Standards, at Last

Race to the top? More like Race to the Bottom. Didn't anyone read Levitt's Freakonomics? If you hold teachers responsible for student achievement that'll only lead to teachers cheating -- creating easier exams, feeding answers to students, and increasing grade inflation. Who are we kidding here? It's also interesting that the money for this program would go to two of the whitest states in the country. Delaware? Really? Does Delaware have as large an inner-city school problem as California or Texas? What this sounds like is wishful grant-making. Grant money to the states where students are most likely to succeed so that you can justify spending more money in the program later.

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Delaware is an old slave state. It has a very large rural black population.

The only reason it did not secede in 1860 was the union troops were already flooding through on the way defend Washington. They were allowed to keep their human property until 1865, after the end of the war. Maryland was in the same category.

There is no need to speculate about the rest of this post. The evidence is in. Confirming it in detail. Not a bad thing.

Every one pays for all bad judgement. Only the GOP denies it.

Well maybe the Roman Church does too.