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Obama’s contradictions on education

Washington Post - The Answer Sheet Blog

March 13, 2010

What do the 10 organizations to which President Obama donated his Nobel Prize Award have in common? They all work to help underserved populations of young people get ready to attend and be successful in college. Obama has said repeatedly that his education goal is to make sure that every child has that opportunity. Yet his education policies to this point cannot ever reach this goal. Nor can they do what he promised during the presidential campaign: Stop high-stakes standardized testing from driving our public education system.

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