Here is a good reason to eliminate the department of education as it is counterproductive and driven by ideology rather then any concern for actual education of students.
“Arne Duncan Pinpoints Where Schools Fail”: Not!!
By John Merrifield
You’d think on your way out the door, you could abandon the party-line talking points that you need to work around to stay in power. Sadly, our departing Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, could not finally firmly choose loyalty to schoolchildren over loyalty to traditional Democrat constituencies. (article in Wall-Street Journal - http://on.wsj.com/1lfqtZ2)
Secretary Duncan does acknowledge that students generally are not getting the skills they need from the current school system. Secretary Duncan’s only suggestions for improved education outcomes are an earlier start, fighting for equity, and later in the article, some complaint about excessive testing; not a word about persistence of heroic assumptions, (http://educationblog.ncpa.org/breathtakingly-heroic-assumptions-the-best-proof-that-transformational-change-is-needed/) weak incentives or that student diversity (http://educationblog.ncpa.org/one-dimensional-thinking-run-amok/) precludes one size from fitting all. (http://educationblog.ncpa.org/the-unacknowledged-lesson-from-the-current-testing-controversies/)
Secretary Duncan has shown some fight against defenders of the status quo with his support for charter schools and teacher merit pay based on test scores, but he couldn’t even re-emphasize those tepid steps in the right direction.
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