The failure of Obama's School Improvement Grants | IN 60 SECONDS

According to federal analysis, one of President Barack Obama's signature efforts in education - the School Improvement Program - pumped billions of dollars into public education and yet failed to produce meaningful results for students and schools. AEI Morgridge Fellow Andy Smarick elaborates.

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[MrYeshi]

Interesting video, the ticking noise in the background was very distracting though.

[PopeSixtusVI]

There's a weird fixation that somehow money is the problem. Our schools get enough money. In Blue States, more than enough. That doesn't solve problems of poor teacher selection/placement, overcrowding in cities, lack of school-choice and entire classes full of drugged out gangbangers and other malcontents who should be expelled forthwith.

[liberdedeum]

+amdg+ quite simply, in the last 20 years, the average cost per pupil started at $13, 000 in 1997 and has made it's way to $23, 000 for this 2016 schoolyear, and yet, no improved success in the caliber of student that graduates. In fact, when speaking to one of the middle school students, they revealed that they only spend 1 hour per week, hands-on, with technology [computers, tablets, mobile devices]. You would think with that kind of a budget, they would have their own tablets to work on! School choice is the only feasible solution at this point, considering the misaligned policies, politics, and bureaucracy deeply entrenched into this behemoth called the public school system. +pax Christi!+

[Joemantler]

Well, clearly billions were not enough!  We need tens of billions!
Or maybe we need school choice...

[EnsignUhTea]

I love these videos but the timer is VERY distracting. Why does it have to be so big & loud? Shouldn't we be focusing on the speaker?

[leonardopina]

the ticking sound is very distracting.