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Originally Posted by nfotiu
That was post president work, right?
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No, clearly presidential work. At least two separate programs, one that started in 2004 and other that started in 2008. Of course the results didn't really come until after he left the White House, but he deserves full credit as the president who got those done.
The significance of this work is really pretty huge. The 2008 program saved more than a million lives just in it's first year.
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That's a tough one for me. One of the fundamental things it led to was giving money to schools that were scoring well and taking away money from schools that were suffering, so that is backwards on its own. It also led to a lot of "teaching to the test" which has pretty much ruined the whole education process in public schools, especially the lower middle class/high performing low income schools.
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As I said, that program was a mixed bag. Some do credit him for getting more attention to developing the US school in general.