Political Quotes

“What they told us is, do not cut remedial education. You are sitting there and you are thinking, this is higher ed, what are we teaching remedial education at higher ed for? And so we asked and we said, what are you teaching? They said, well, 25 percent of the students that we get coming into our universities, 25 percent, one out of four, cannot read or write at an eighth grade level. It is kind of like, the President is proposing America Reads, which is the tutors and all of that, and the, you take, you peal away a little bit in California and what you found is they left phonics, they went to whole language. Did not work. Got a generation of kids now that are scoring some of the lowest scores in the country. Nobody is taking a look at what is going on in the classroom where the kids are spending 6 to 8 hours per day, and we should be focusing on them. The message of the college administrators was, get back into the classroom.”