Is Communism in the United States? Blog Post Five

1. Should we have a national Department of Education? Explain.
2. Address the weaknesses in the argument in the article you read
3. Do you think the Race to the Top Fund is a good idea or is it the Federal Government overstepping its grounds? Explain.
4. In your opinion, should education be nationally or locally directed? Explain.


1. THere should not be a nation departmnent of education, because if there is a single all powerful group that controls what is being taught by the schools; they have no way of knowing what each school needs to learn.

2. The article seemed to do alot of ranting about nothing in my oppionion, it was extremely vague about Bush's policies that supposedly promoted Communism in the United States.

3. I think that it is a good idea to promote competition in the states, simply because if there is a reqard offered than the "Race" may be taken seriously. Also, any money won can be used for the school systems for said State.

4 Education should be locally directed, because the locals know what is the most importnt thing that needs to be worked on, the national government has no idea what is going on in schools over 100 miles away.