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Is White House education policy a summons to a social agenda?

By Alliance Alert

Frederick M. Hess writing at The American Enterprise Institute's Enterprise Blog: "The Obama administration is aggressively pushing an effort to create common national standards in math and language arts. The current effort, coordinated by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and involving 48 states, is backed by $350 million in federal Race to the Top (RTT) stimulus funds . . . Unfortunately, a just-published interview with Department of Education official Kevin Jennings raises concerns about whether administration officials have been fully honest about their agenda . . . A high-ranking administration official is telling us that the common standards backed by federal dollars will 'start' with academics but eventually encompass 'school climate' standards, too? Jennings raises further red flags when he concedes that we have not determined 'the definition of school climate,' though he says it 'does not include air conditioning' but does include kids feeling 'emotionally safe.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).