Pupil-teacher ratios have been shrinking for a century. We now know it is possible to have, simultaneously, declining pupil-teacher ratios and declining scores on tests measuring schools' cognitive results. Gore's Dallas speech proves the need for remedial classes not only in prose composition but in elementary arithmetic, too. Bush's proposed tax cut over 10 years would involve just 5 percent of projected federal revenues. And federal money amounts to just 7 percent of all spending on public elementary and secondary education.
Education schools feed their graduates into, and feed off, the teachers' unions.
Those unions sometimes push for state legislation that keeps the education schools in business by requiring teachers to pass through them. Washington, D.C., has lots of public schools that fit that description, which is why none of Gore's children attended one. Gore is vehemently opposed to that. To the classes Gore needs in remedial composition and arithmetic, add one on elementary logic. E.W. Scripps Publications , All Rights Reserved.