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Why can't Uncle Sam learn?

Washington Post - Column

March 18, 2010

How does one fulfill -- or know when one has fulfilled -- Obama's goal of "college and career readiness" for every child by 2020? That gauzy goal resembles the 1994 goal that by 2000 (when, Congress dreamily decreed, every school "will be free of drugs and violence") every child would start school "ready to learn." Is "college and career readiness" one goal or two? Should everybody go to college? Is a college degree equivalent to career -- any career? -- readiness?

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