Matt Damon and Education

[From article]
"Consequence: bottom-basement US student scores on global assessments over the last two decades. Blaming the tests is blaming the messenger. The liberal education establishment’s response to its abject academic failures? Run away. This is why the Save Our Schools agenda championed by Damon calls for less curricular emphasis on math and reading -- and more focus on social justice, funding and “equity” issues.

Out: Reading is fundamental.

In: Feeling is fundamental.
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“In many major cities, only one out of 1,000 teachers is fired for performance-related reasons. . . . In 10 years, only about 47 out of 100,000 teachers were actually terminated from New Jersey's schools.”
By contrast, as the educational documentary “Waiting for Superman” pointed out, one out of every 57 doctors loses his or her license to practice medicine, and one out of every 97 lawyers loses their license to practice law."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/ignorant_matt_H6uKjAXDP0G8p3qm2MdJHP

Ignorant Matt
Damon’s silly teacher rant
Michelle Malkin
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:22 AM, August 5, 2011
Posted: 9:48 PM, August 4, 2011