Students must be tested on the basics of reading and math each year and those results posted, by their school, or on the Internet. This will give parents the information to know if education is actually taking place and the leverage to demand reform. .
A thread of principle binds his education proposals. The federal government must be humble enough to stay out of the day - to - day operation of local school. It must be wise enough to give states and school districts more authority and freedom. And it must be strong enough to require proven performance in return. The federal role in education is to foster excellence and challenge failure with charters and choice. The federal role in education is not to serve the system. It is to serve the children. .
He says that this is only the beginning. He wants the children to be smart and successful. But more that he wants, them to be good, kind, and decent. The children of today, he says, "Must learn how to make a living and what to love. Intelligence is not enough (also first stated by Martin Luther King Jr.). Intelligence plus character -that is the true goal of education." .
Bush Thinks that the real problem comes, not when children challenge the rules, but when adults won't defend the rules. And for about three decades, many American schools surrendered this role. Values were "clarified," not taught. "Students were given moral puzzles, not moral guidance." He thinks that we should not all shape our own morality. But it is morality that shapes our lives.
Bush thinks in spite of conflicting signals and a popular culture that sometimes drowns their innocence. He thinks that most children are good children. He also believes that a large number of kids do volunteer work and nearly all believe in god and practice their faith. Teen pregency and violence is going down and that is part of the program called "True Love Waits". He thinks this is what the good children of the USA should or are, and he thinks to help the children in need of it or not they should get or deserve our love and encouragement.