A smart Congressman?


Rep. John Boehner pushes for free market solutions
Representative John Boehner (R-OH) is at least making the right noises.

Let's start with education. Our economy is increasingly dependent on the educational attainment of our workers. So what do endless studies, experts, parents, and students tell us is the key to educational performance?
 
Empower good teachers who will instruct and inspire their students, and get bad teachers out of the way. Demand that students, teachers and schools all be accountable. Engage parents as partners in their children's education. Put the welfare of students ahead of the institutions responsible for serving them.
 
That's it. Do these things, and you're on your way.
 
Democrats argue that the solution is more -- more teachers, more money, more of everything in a system that hasn't shown results. But simply adding teachers doesn't do the job. Spending more money doesn't do the job. Improving our educational system means removing bureaucratic obstacles to hiring talented young teachers; it means firing bad ones; it means setting standards for performance and then insisting that those standards be met. It means putting the interests of our kids first, and ruthlessly bulldozing over whatever else is in the way. And it means giving kids in substandard schools a real choice about where they learn.

Three questions.

Does it believe it?

What is he going to do about it?

And how is he going to convince people it's a good idea?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - December 8, 2005 at 04:54 AM  Tag


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