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To: calgal who wrote (73596)	6/8/2012 2:25:10 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 103300

The Magazine Learning from Failure An education agenda for Mitt Romney. Jun 11, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 37 • By FREDERICK M. HESS AND ANDREW P. KELLY Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts The Republican presidential candidates have spent the past year saying little about education. When they have addressed the issue, it has often been in terse calls to “turn off the lights” at the U.S. Department of Education. After a decade of runaway spending and regulations on education by both the Bush and Obama administrations—with little to show for it—it’s easy to see why conservatives have little patience for talk of anything that seems to invite federal activity. But the reality is federal engagement isn’t going away. Mitt Romney meets with students in West Philadelphia Newscom Last week, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney unveiled an agenda for education reform centered on promising themes such as school choice, innovation, transparency, and return on investment. Most important, Romney’s plans turn the page on the decade-long romance with expansive No Child Left Behind-style federal intervention. But the work should not stop there. A coherent agenda should not only move us away from policies that have proven unsuccessful; it should also use the lessons from those missteps to draft a new approach. Instead of settling for vague paeans to choice and innovation, Romney should chart a course for federal involvement that capitalizes on areas where government is well-positioned to play a productive role and avoids the pitfalls unearthed by previous administrations.

To: calgal who wrote (73596)	6/8/2012 2:31:05 PM
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Romney: Obama Is 'Out of Touch'1:33 PM, Jun 8, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER Earlier today, President Obama assured American that "the private sector is doing fine." Now, Republican Mitt Romney has responded by saying that the president is "out of touch." "Now this morning, the president had a press conference. I don’t know if you heard it, but he called a press conference and pulled people in and said a number of things, and one of the most interesting things he said was this: he said the private sector is doing fine. He said the private sector is doing fine," Romney said. "Is he really that out of touch?" Romney continued: "I think he’s defining what it means to be detached and out of touch with the American people. Has there ever been an American president who is so far from reality as to believe in an America where 23 million Americans are out of work, or stopped looking for work, or can only find part-time jobs and need full-time jobs, where the economy grew in the first quarter of the year at only 1.9 percent, where the median income in America has dropped by 10% over the last four years, where there have been record number of home foreclosures, for the President of the United States to stand up and say the private sector is doing fine is going to go down in history. It's an extraordinary miscalculation and misunderstanding by a President who is out of touch, and we're going to take back this country and get America working again." Chris Christie: Obama Is Driving America Off a Fiscal Cliff 1:19 PM, Jun 8, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERNew Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie blasted President Obama in a speech earlier today at a conservative conference in Chica