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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My main takeaway from this election is our citizens have no idea how our government functions it’s any level.

This thread is solid evidence of that.

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Even though it's an innocent typo, the fact that the OP misspelled "Washington" in the thread title feels soooooo on the nose here.[/quote]

The Department of Education spends about $200 million a year on research intended to improve educational practice. No evidence exists that these expenditures have done any significant good.[/quote]

I’d say the evidence suggests that they make things worse.  Honestly, if you put me in charge I could do better with one sentence: “[b]Copy what Massachusetts is doing to the best of your ability[/b]”.

Instead we get educational consultants with EDs with no actual idea how to teach coming up with new ideas every couple of years.[/quote]

Teachers union and a wealthy population [/quote]

A lot more than that.  They have very high standards, much smaller school districts.  Poor kids in Massachusetts do better than poor kids everywhere else.   Even corrected for student demographics, Massachusetts is #1 in the country based on the NAEP.  If Massachusetts was a country, they would be one of the highest scoring in the world on the PISA.[/quote]

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