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Posted on 08/08/2011 5:29:01 AM PDT by markomalley
State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn't answered the call.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a break.
The plan to offer waivers to all 50 states, as long as they meet other school reform requirements, comes at the request of President Barack Obama, Duncan said. More details on the waivers will come in September, he said.
The goal of the No Child Left Behind law is to have every student proficient in math and reading by 2014. States have been required to bring more students up to the math and reading standards each year, based on tests that usually take place each spring. The step-by-step ramping up of the 9-year-old law has caused heartburn in states and most school districts, because more and more schools are labeled as failures as too few of their students meet testing goals.
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To get our money back that we send to Washington every year. That way, they can mandate free day care, free lunch, free breakfast, diversity training, sensitivity training, sexual deviant training, global warming training, sustainability training, choo choo training, etc. We send a dollar in taxes and get back 60 cents but we get to support a host of bureaucrats along the way.
Well, they should be. I know where my kids went to high school there were two alternative schools for the troublemakers. From what I could see, it was a way to conform to the requirements that they attend school, but there was very little learning going on. “Out of sight, out of mind”.
Many don’t understand how NCLB works. States set standards for what they expect kids to master at each grade level. Each year the number of kids who must be rated “Profcient” or higher is raised. This year the number was set at 75 percent. (in 2014 it will be 100 percent.)
No one really believes it is possible to achieve this. Logic tells us that half of the population at large is below average in intelligence. Some are far below average, yet we are expected to get them to basically work at grade level. On a personal note, I have 8th graders who are reading at an 11th or 12th grade level and some as you might expect, read at a 4th grade level on their best days.
So what are we to do? Some schools, like Atlanta choose to cheat. Some states have tried to lower the standards—states that had high standards before NCLB got hammered by its yearly rise in what constitutes a passing grade. Many schools now devote their entire curriculum and classroom day to passing the test. Many elementary schools are dropping classes like history since it’s not on the test.
And even then, most schools fail to meet the standard. This year 16 percent of Missouri school districts passed NCLB. And it is not enough that 75 percent of your students pass...75 percent of students on free/reduced lunches have to pass, 75 percent of identifiable minorities (which includes blacks, Asians, Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Pacific Islanders if memory serves) have to pass, 75 percent of limited English speakers have to pass and 75 percent of IEP students (that’s “special Ed) also have to pass.
Just thought some of you would be interested in why so many schools are not meeting NCLB standards. In a couple of years none will.
Obama and his liberal followers are rapidly turning America into a country of losers.
I see this reversal today as pure pandering for votes. Obama is bleeding liberal support and he is going to do more of these types of things to get it back. He is SCUM (but we already knew that).
No Child Left Behind = All Children Left Behind
Obama needs his followers dumb and clueless. Pretty soon learning to read will be a privilege.
What am I missing here?
Since the tests are supposed to measure what the curriculum is supposed to teach, isn't that what they should be doing - teaching the students the material needed to pass the test?
If there's any mismatch, they can either change the tests to match what's being taught or change the curriculum to match what's being tested.
“My experience with public schools — and it is considerable — is that they have little control over students whose parents don’t care.”
And WAY to much control over students whose parents DO care!
Alternative schools are upheld to the same state tests. Unfortunately, in our county the test scores at the alternative high school lead to the entire county being found 'failing.'
...where do you go to school son?
...Obama elementary...
...how old are you?
...36...
Well, one thing is, do you want the curriculum to be set by local districts or by the state board of education? Since I started teaching 30 years ago the trend has been toward state control of curriculum. There are some who are wanting to see it become federal control. There is a saying (don’t know that it is true) that a Frenchman can look at his watch and know what lesson is being taught in every classroom in the country. That is not how we have approached education in this nation.
I expect that if you are more than 30 years old, what you were taught was decided at the local level—perhaps even by your teacher or administrators in your local district. The requirement of state standardized tests leads to a state standardized curriculum.
Well, one thing is, do you want the curriculum to be set by local districts or by the state board of education? Since I started teaching 30 years ago the trend has been toward state control of curriculum. There are some who are wanting to see it become federal control. There is a saying (don’t know that it is true) that a Frenchman can look at his watch and know what lesson is being taught in every classroom in the country. That is not how we have approached education in this nation.
I expect that if you are more than 30 years old, what you were taught was decided at the local level—perhaps even by your teacher or administrators in your local district. The requirement of state standardized tests leads to a state standardized curriculum.
So now because a bunch of fat-butted loser government teachers in Atlanta got caught cheating
How do you know it resulted in improvements? You think Atlanta is the only district cheating?
The cheating was the most predictable outcome of this boondoggle law.
“Maybe because the states have done such a crappy job that it’s affected the country as a whole, causing the Feds to step in?”
The stupid kids get to vote. That’s why we have Obama in charge.
The Jeffersonians may not want to accept it but the countries that are beating us in math and science all have strong national standards.
Originally, Bush was to have the failing schools to allow parents to choose their own schools, if the school didn’t pass and have enough kids on track.
He caved to Teddy, and it didn’t make it into the bill.
Now, it is being dismantled. Can’t have choice of education for the sheeple.
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