Mike Rose & Lewis Black

Lewis Black and Mike Rose have a few points on education that make me think of education a bit differently. When you build a school for half a billion dollars and in the meantime kids are relying on the luck of a lottery to be enrolled in an education, it makes you think, are our priorities straight? I love how Lewis Black pokes at that media, in particular NBC, who does a poor job of reviewing our current education. Meet the Press offers a tip to help a public school, "...Walk in, and ask how you can help." Before offering a total stranger a volunteer job at a public school, lets consider the 10 percent of teachers who are let go because of low test scores. "There are many factors that affect student academic performance...so canning the bottom 10 percent won't erase all the barriers to achievement." The argument that student's test scores shouldn't be the only determining factor in the future of their education goes for the same idea that teachers shouldn't be fired for their low test scores. I believe a teacher who scores high doesn't always have the ability to teach a class of students. The teacher might be well educated in math or English, but can they teach? A class of students aren't going to be interested in your curriculum if you have a poor method of teaching.