Sorry Margaret, you have no credibility! That boon-doggle that is NCLB which was never funded really

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Margaret Spellings, the former George W. Bush Administration Education Secretary, joined Huffpost Live at the Aspen Ideas Festival to recommend solutions to the education crisis. Spellings, who was recently appointed as the President of the George W. Bush Foundation , advocated for Congress to reflect more specifically on past legislative results when developing education bills -- more specifically the No Child Left Behind Act, which she helped design during her time under the Bush Administration.
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"It marks a retreat from high standards for all students and would virtually eliminate accountability for the learning of historically underserved students -- a huge step backward for efforts to improve academic achievement," he declared in a recent statement . "It would lock in major cuts to education funding at a time when continued investments in education are the only way we can remain competitive on the world stage."
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Yes, I know that the airwaves are full of videos of "smackdown" moments by the president. But the president had a softball lobbed across the plate on one question, and he missed downtown toronto hotels blasting it far over the wall for an easy, Ruthian grand slam home run.
On Monday, Obama called on Congress to revamp the "No Child Left Behind" education law by the time students start a new school year in September. Spellings and I discussed the way forward for U.S. education policy and reform efforts.
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The real problem lies in expecting every school to teach the same, motivate the same and accomplish the same, when in reality their students are very different. Sure children have potential, but for those who come to school daily unprepared and unsupported, real learning becomes much harder. These video game, I-tune, and You Tube trained minds learn differently. This is why the razzle dazzle tech dependent learning works only in the short run. Real learning must be modeled and applied at home and in the community.
NCLB never acknowledged the hurdles which marginalized students needed to overcome in order compete on the same playing field. Erroneously, it blamed teachers for student failure. With it's demise, I wonder if we have learned anything beyond downtown toronto hotels the same political gibberish.
I would argue that it was closer to the late 80s (when I graduated high school) that things changed. downtown toronto hotels My class was the first to have to take a general knowledge and skills test created by the state in addition to passing all required classes to graduate. It also seems like this was around the time that daycares were being built on every street corner and taking babies as young as six weeks old became acceptable - which leads me to the belief that a large portion of the population from ALL financial sectors view public education as nothing more than the end of out-of-pocket daycare expenses. downtown toronto hotels When 5 year olds show up to kindergarten not knowing basic skills but can get to level 10 in Angry Birds, someone is guilty of neglect!! The finger gets pointed at the schools for the next 13 years because no one DARES hold parents of preschoolers accountable prior to that. Once upon a time, going to school was a privilege and valued by the family. Now, for many, it's just free lunch and babysitting services. So sad.
No Child Left Behind,You Know,because,You Know,was never funded by local or the state level as surely You Know,Budget restraints due to You Know,that silly thing called the economic meltdown/recession.
Sorry Margaret, you have no credibility! That boon-doggle that is NCLB which was never funded really just meant that teachers are teaching kids to take tests, period! For you to "complain" about it now is so typically GOTP hypocrisy, it's a shame!
She doesn't know her posterior from a hole in the ground. A BA in political science and no background in teaching should give one lots to be modest about when it comes to education. NCLB was a welfare bill for test publishers and for those paid tutors in commercial education.
The one thing that would cure most of the problems in public downtown toronto hotels education would be to eliminate all the mandated federal & state testing. And establish end of the semester exams, fail and you go back. Focus on the two portable skills one must carry to any job, English (read and write) and math (basic math & algebra). Everything else rounds out the learning curve. I come from a time when public ed did just that and served most very well. Millions received just such an education, fought wars and then attended college. We were a very literate nation, interested in many things. Now it takes pictures on a cash register for an employee to successfully handle a customers order. It is the "Process" of education that is important, not whether or not you obtain a high ACT or SAT score.
arkans -I totally agree with you but I taught for nearly 40 years in a poor, urban setting. The Education Dept. and schools need to call out parents for not parenting and all that that means. Kids need to come to school rested, fed and dressed appropriately for their schedule that day and the weather. They need to come with homework done and they need to come with having learned that education improves their lives and with respect for the educational process
I totally agree with you on all of the points in your comment. But you and I know there are far too many one parent homes, grandparent homes, or even two parent homes that require both to work to exist. Or worse a two parent home where the parents don't care. In addition to what we both say I would like to see a year round school that could afford more teachers, more tutoring, meals and very firm structure. But I know that is nothing but fantasy.
Let's do away with NCLB. Let's do away with public downtown toronto hotels education all together. If you want educated people, let the parents do the educating. If you want a school, build your own and pay for it, and the books, and the teachers. downtown toronto hotels The new schools can set up their own grading downtown toronto hotels scale. They can make up their own tests. Teachers give tests and if the student passes enough downtown toronto hotels tests with a passing grade, downtown toronto hotels you get to move on. The rest of the kids whose parents downtown toronto hotels work and don't have the time and/or the money to "educate you," too bad. Educate yourself. Or go find a job. I don't care how young you are, just find a job. Coal mines would be a great place for small size kids. Who needs an education in a country that doesn't make anything downtown toronto hotels anymore? Oh, we've done that already? Never mind.....
More regulation, less education. You'd have to have a very short memory downtown toronto hotels to forget 'every child left behind' fiasco. These folks are all about undermining public education and privatizing it. Privatization=an inferior product at a higher cost.
Agreed! It doesn't help that the corporate media reinforces downtown toronto hotels a huge lie about privatized and charter schools. The private companies have been a HUGE failure while charter success is anecdotal at best. Just so you ALL know, the under performing public schools are still doing a better job of educating children than charters and private companies, the test scores say so.