History of IDEA
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Obama, education, Snooki, civil rights and Bryan Bass
- 07-30-2010
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
It's a little hard to make sense of what happened this week in the world of education, but, let's give it a fast try: *President Obama gave a speech to the Urban League convention in which he joked about the Jersey Shore’s Snooki and also said the following: “Now, over the past 18 months ... I think the single most important thing we’ve done is to launch an initiative called Race to the Top.” Yes, that’s what he said: His terribly misguided $4.35 billion competitive grant program is, apparently, more important than health care reform, the economic recovery program, improving the student loan program, increasing Pell Grant payouts, and, well, anything else he has accomplished since becoming president. (more...)
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