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The Federal Government Should Play No Role In Setting The Agenda For Education.
When the most powerful entity has the power over what you are to learn, you learn nothing at all. States should regulate their individual education systems, thereby diversifying the body of knowledge in this country whose education system is a laughing stock compared to much much poorer countries.
 openurmind  01 Mar 2008 22:34
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That most likely wouldn't do to well. The federal government is a key element in the finances and the standards. Granted American schools aren't doing to well, but I blame the individual student population.
 
 Specter87  24 Oct 2008 01:56
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It is absolutely illogical if the Federal Government plays no role in setting the agenda for education. They should have a say and rather they should come up with proper agenda or curriculum for education. Depending on many issues they should plan their agenda in such a way so that the education system includes all such things which are highly required from the worldly point of view. If each and every state is given the authority to make their own education system then this may show diversity but there may remain a difference between the standard of education that is being imparted. May be some state is having an education standard too high whereas one another state is having an education system which is not up to that standard. Thus if the course content is decided by the Federal Government then all the states will follow them.
 
 sudipa  18 Apr 2008 17:51
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The problem is when you don't set central standards you'd get states like Georgia starting to introduce wacko stuff like Intelligent Design into the curriculum. If no one stopped them, it would end up with pupils being taught that the earth was created 6000 years ago and that most of science was junk. Then loads of books would be banned because they had too much sin in them; Shakespeare would be banned because he was bisexual; Auden would be banned because he was gay; T. S. Eliot would be banned because he was "unAmerican". The Left Behind series would be taught in the English class as "great literature". Where would it stop?
 
 Hidell  02 Mar 2008 04:18
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All the countries that are beating us in education have nationalized education. Japan, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and UK are all controlled by the federal government.
 
 LilHulk  02 Mar 2008 02:19
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 If that is the case then why do we fall well below all of these countries in education?
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 02 Mar 2008 18:09
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