A Cruel Obama Hoax: "Improve Education at All Levels"

A recent AP story about Obama and education appeared in scores of American newspapers.

According to the report, “President Barack Obama is promising to improve American education from preschool to college.”

The story appears in the midst of a drumbeat for pre-K, or “quality pre-K,” as the ever-sycophantic New York Times puts it.  One problem: if K-12 is wracked by mediocrity now, why is pre-K, or anything else, suddenly going to be conducted at a high level?  That would be most unlikely.  Here’s why:

In his State of the Union last week. Obama made a laundry list of promises.  Some of them are concerned with technology and grants.  These he might be able to fulfill.

But the promise of improving education at all levels is mocked by the fact that Common Core, his signature effort in this area, is now devastating education at all levels in all states that have embraced it.

Simultaneous with the AP story, there was a new Breitbart story about Governor Huckabee backtracking on his support for Common Core.  Apparently his fans and supporters have screamed and booed at such volume that Huckabee has been forced to pay attention.  His new line is that he’s in favor of it but he isn’t.  He wants some new terminology.  He wants rebranding, as if that would change the nature of the beast.

Indeed, many states are now changing the jargon.  This is precisely what our Education Establishment has always done.  As soon as the public discovers that a new idea is a bad idea, our education experts don’t change the idea; they change the name.