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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (43427)	10/6/2000 8:43:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Do you really think that the overall quality of public school education can be accurately assessed by medical school applications? That particular population has already completed four years of university, and achieved academic success and is hardly representative of --anything. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram today: When Cheney lamented the state of education in America and declared many children in poor schools "are permanently sentenced to a lifetime of failure," Lieberman objected. "A lot of progress has been made in recent years," Lieberman interjected, though conceding more work needs to be done. But about a month before his selection as vice presidential nominee, Lieberman used similarly grave language to assess the state of public education: "We are facing an educational crisis in our poorest urban and rural communities, where learning is too often languishing, where dysfunction is too often the norm," Lieberman said on the Senate floor. Not much has changed since that June 28 speech. Test scores released last month showed that during the past decade, reading and science scores have mostly declined. Math scores--measured over a longer period dating to 1982-- were up.