hot topic of illegal immigration on facebook. a number of them were about the murder of kate steinly in san francisco, allegedly shot down by an illegal. this question will you support kate steinle s law which imposes a five year prison term fon an illegal deported and then returns to this country. obama care is one of the things you call a disaster. complete disaster. saying it needs to be repealed and replaced. correct. now 15 years ago you called yourself a liberal on hk. you were health care. you were for a canadian style system. why were you for that then and why aren t you for it now? governor huckabee on facebook we have this question. will you abolish or take away the powers and cut the size of the epa, the irs, department of education? so the question is, at this
the most revealing. we read yesterday harry reid s comments, talking about, this isn t good. but a pathway to single pay or universal healthcare system. that s the whole goal from the beginning. sure it was. we didn t like what was in the president s law. they were happy that it would destroy the existing form of employer based insurance and ehaven tly in order to fix it, the only remedy offerable would be a single payer european or canadian style system. if you notice the only part, only significant part that the president delayed so far, have been related paying for it. so the signing people up for it part will still go ahead. it maintains data even though there are problems with the irs that will force it. if it blows up the existing insurance system, harry reid will have the answer which was, it s okay, because on the other side of that will be what the left wanted all along which is a
ravitch used to be a big fan of testing, supporting the no child left behind measure passed by president bush. which made testinghe law of the land. after a decade of tests, ravitch has changed her tune. i thought, i m wrong. and that shocked a lot of people. ravitch notes that their importance has led test obsessed school districts to cut programs like the arts that foster real creative. i ve seen many articles of how a child wants to somehow break free of the lockstep approach to standardized instruction and standardized testing. we, on the other hand, seem to be rushing towards the model that they are trying to shake free of. i ve heard people say, you know, the american system needs to be one which encourages people to be curious, adventurous, taking risks, not this sort of style system where
to be one which encourages people to be curious, adventurous, taking risks, not this sort of style system where everyone s hurtling towards a test. they will often cite you as an example. they ll say, well, look, bill gates dropped out of college, spent hours and hours in computer labs just dreaming up stuff. this was not working methodically towards a test. what do you say to that? well, certainly if my example is meaningful, it s just one data point. being good at math and having that knowledge was critical to my being able to understand computers, to write code. yes, i memorized the tables and how things work. do you think that the kind of tests that so much of education reform uses as a metric is a good measurer of intelligence or achievement or future success? we re not an organization that says that testing data