Do, Re, Who Me?

By the time American students reach the eighth grade, Education Secretary Richard Riley says they should be able to “improvise a simple harmonic accompaniment to a musical melody,” adding such a requirement shouldn’t be too much “for a great nation.” Riley said that in his own life, his first political success came in about the fifth grade, was when he was elected president of a children’s music club. (AP) ...I’d settle for eighth graders who could read, write and reason — and not think being elected club president is a “political success”.