Mr. Obama is having some trouble with the facts when it comes dropout rates and just how well the students are doing.(click graph to enlarge)
Factcheck.org reports: This year President Obama is making a case for spending more on teachers' salaries, early education and more as part of his new agenda.
We certainly wouldn't argue that education can't be improved, but some of the figures Obama used painted a bleaker picture than actually exists:
- The high school dropout rate hasn't "tripled in the past 30 years," as Obama claimed. According to the Department of Education, it has actually declined by a third. (lol Obama missed this one by a long shot, see graph above)
- Eighth-grade math scores haven't "fallen" to ninth place compared with other countries. U.S. scores have climbed to that ranking from as low as 28th place in 1995. (Wow, Obama left this great news out....)
- Obama also set a goal "of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world" by 2020. But in terms of bachelor's degrees, we're nearly there. The U.S. is already second only to Norway in the percentage of adults age 25 to 64 with a four-year degree, and trails by just 1 percentage point.
Once again Mr. Obama is painting a picture of doom and gloom. I agree with Factcheck.org, there is lots of room for improvement in our Educational System, however I also believe Obama should call a spade a spade and stop the lil' white lies he tells just to get his agenda passed. I mean whatever happened to integrity? ethics? Isn't a man's word his honor?
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"Lil white lies"? Is that as opposed to the huge Boners Bush used to tell like Saddam has WMDS (over 100,000 people died over that lie), or, "We don't torture", (We have the proof we did torture)or "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" (that while the biggest collapse since the depression was underway?)..There were countless lies perpetrated by the Bush-Cheney regime- not little white lies, but life-snuffing lies!
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