After many years of failed ecducational programs there comes a time when reality must be faced.


Despite nearly two decades of reform initiatives, we still do not know how to provide effective schools for millions of poor and minority students. Half of all poor, immigrant, and minority children never earn a regular high school diploma. In many cities, more than 30 percent of all low-income African- American students score below the bottom 10th percentile on national reading and math tests.

We also do not know exactly what all youngsters will need in order to meet the demands of the fast-changing global economy. Surely, all students will need to read, write, and reason mathematically, but what else? Today's workers need skills that were not even considered important 30 years ago, and there is little reason to think that 30 years from now schools will not find themselves in a similar position.


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I think we need to start thinking about career driven education. We also need to get rid of multiple choice standardized tests.

But there is so much more to do than that.

The children are the future, and we're not giving them much of one. We need to be putting at least double what we're currently putting into education. We need to truly make sure that no child is left behind.

No Child Left Behind was a joke, and nothing but a political football to be kicked around at election time. Until we quit getting lip service on this issue from the people who fund education the matter will just get worse.

I ask when the American people are gonna stop beating the emotional issues and start worrying about the future and their children. Let me say, Dems have some great stands, but they cannot seem to get them into action. If they cannot and the Repubs will not, is it not time to find a new leadership?