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The Obama administration will seek sweeping reforms to George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" Act, abandoning some metrics that teachers unions, principals and other officials have complained about since the law went into effect, the New York Times reports. Obama will seek broad changes in the ways schools are judged to be succeeding, and will eliminate the law's 2014 deadline for bringing every American student to academic proficiency.
1. All public funding for education is ended.
2. All taxation of education is ended.
3. Parents / guardians pay for whatever schooling they wish.
If parents want their child to attend a school where the emphasis is on "sports entertainment" and not on the quality of the library or instruction, so be it.
If parents want a babysitting service that does not produce results, so be it.
But make the parents directly pay for it. Let the market decide.
That law has damaged education in this country and should be completely repealed.
Agreed!
WASHINGTON - January 08, 2009 - For seven years, educators have been living and working with the unintended and harmful consequences of No Child Left Behind, which judges schools and children based solely on standardized test scores at the expense of preparing them with 21st century skills. President-elect Obama is calling to fully fund the law and move away from the test, label and punish regime of the last seven years. NEA - No Child Left Behind cemented as failed education legacy of President Bush
The Obama administration will seek sweeping reforms to George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" Act, abandoning some metrics that teachers unions, principals and other officials have complained about since the law went into effect, the New York Times reports. Obama will seek broad changes in the ways schools are judged to be succeeding, and will eliminate the law's 2014 deadline for bringing every American student to academic proficiency.
This was actually an older article but it appears that it is going to happen...
The current system issues the equivalent of a pass-fail report card for every school each year, an evaluation that administration officials say fails to differentiate among chaotic schools in chronic failure, schools that are helping low-scoring students improve and high-performing suburban schools that nonetheless appear to be neglecting some low-scoring students.
Instead, under the administration’s proposals, a new accountability system would divide schools into more categories, offering recognition to those that are succeeding and providing large new amounts of money to help improve or close failing schools.
A new goal, which would replace the 2014 universal proficiency deadline, would be for all students to leave high school “college or career ready.†Currently more than 40 states are collaborating, in an effort coordinated by the National Governors Association and encouraged by the administration, to write common standards defining what it means to be a graduate from high school ready for college or a career.
The new standards will also define what students need to learn in earlier grades to advance successfully toward high school graduation.
More payback to the ruinous unions at the expense of the nation's children.
Incompetent teachers should be fired, those that can't/don't/won't teach the children should be fired.
Its funny how accountability tends to scare nonperformers. Performers don't really mind a challenge. I know where I work they started a new program. All paygrades must demonstrate skills. In other words if you are being paid as a Tech 4 that means you have leadership skills, mechanical skills and process skills. A set of standards are used to compare your actual performance against what you should be doing. If you do not meet you have 1 year to re-establish your qualifications. At the end of the year if you fail to meet you will be demoted to the paygrade that you do meet.
Oddly enough no performer really cared. It was the slackers who went into full blown panic. Even more odd the performers don't seem to be at all willing to help the slackers recover. LOL Could it be from years of abuse of the system and riding on the backs of others?
Teachers once they attain tenure are virtually bullet proof. Do away with tenure and do away with protecting the jobs of non-performers and we will see gains.
1. All public funding for education is ended.
2. All taxation of education is ended.
3. Parents / guardians pay for whatever schooling they wish.
If parents want their child to attend a school where the emphasis is on "sports entertainment" and not on the quality of the library or instruction, so be it.
If parents want a babysitting service that does not produce results, so be it.
But make the parents directly pay for it. Let the market decide.
Out of all of the money the federal government spends, the money going to education is some of the best spent money, as far as return on investment, than any other government program.
That doesn't mean things can't be changed, like granting vouchers for parents who decide to send their children to schools instead of being locked into one school where you live.
However, removing all federal funding from public schools would be the worst mistake this country has made in over 8 years, and that includes the Iraq war.
I'm friends with several teachers, and everyone of them I know HATES no child left behind. It has screwed up our education system from top to bottom, and should be overhauled completely, or scrapped, completely.
Kudos for President Obama.
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