Learning from Canada's schools
In a speech on Canadian television touting the health care system of our northern neighbor, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said, "It's not that you need to become more like Americans, we need to become more Canadian-like." If America mimicked Canadian education policy, however, Mr. Moore might never recover from the shock.
Mr. Moore loves Canada's centralized, government-run health care system, but it turns out that a streak of Ronald Reagan runs through Canadian education. When he ran for president in 1980, Mr. Reagan advocated the abolition of the U.S. Department of Education, created by President Carter. Mr. Reagan called the department a "boondoggle," an unwanted federal encroachment on local control of education policy.… Seguir leyendo »