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The irony behind Obama’s Sidwell/D.C. schools remarks

  • 09-28-2010
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post

There is some irony behind President Obama's comment that his daughters could not get as fine an academic experience in a D.C. public school as they do at private Sidwell Friends School: His education policies promote some practices that Sidwell wouldn't dream of adopting. Obama sparked a heated debate when he said during an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that schools in the D.C. public system were making progress but were not as good as Sidwell. (more…)

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