Obama's New Education Proposal

With the competing world powers like Korea hoping to out-educate Americans, Obama proposed a plan to have a higher standards for reading, mathetmatics, and science on Monday February 22. In a meeting with governors of the country Obama stressed the importance of having higher education standards to keep up with worlds competitive marketplace. Obama's proposal calls for states to a “college- and career-ready standards” in reading and math. This enables states to retrieve money and aid for students that cannot afford education. The no child left behind policy that is in place right now gives the states the power to define what is "challenging and academic" for schools to teach. This causes different states to have different standards to what "challenging" is. Massachusetts for example is an example of a state who possesses challenging academic material, who ranked 9th in reading and 11th in math for its eighth graders. But with the no child left being, 11 states have actually lowered their standards in 2005 and 2007, which is not a good thing for the economy, and American education as a whole. Obama intends to revive education for the next generations so the United States can remain at power. Democrat or Republican Obama intends to work with everyone as to achieve this proposal to strengthen the United States and its education.
I think that it's definitely good that Obama wants to improve the education of Americans, I mean I do think that most Americans ar e unintelligent as it is. The no child left behind is a good policy in theory but i think that there should be a stricter and more challenging standard for all Americans, so we can all be on the same page. I mean wouldn't that make more sense than to have some states be "smarter" than other states when we can all be an intelligent nation as whole? Counties for all over the world are inching and hungry for american jobs, i know it, and many countries are taking our jobs because we are not educated enough. This needs to change, and Obamas proposal is a step towards something better, i guess.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/education/23educ.html