Têâchers hostage to 'success' ~ repeal NCLB?

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Teachers hostage to 'success'
by Michael Goodwin

The e-mail box runneth over with bad tidings. Teachers are reporting that cheating is rampant in New York City schools -- and they claim principals are the culprits.

The reports are responding to my column that many schools are denying students the freedom to fail in a misguided bid to help them. To judge from the response, the problem is worse than I feared. Much worse.

www.nypost.com/p/news/local/teachers_hostage_to_success_dmR2TxGjD85oGWJ3UCzp0O#ixzz1NqdoAo6Q

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...I never did like NLCB... now, who's with me?

[ugonow]

This was pointed out years ago when first proposed.The program in Texas that it was based on had the same thing.

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Sen. Barack Obama took a strongly progressive stance for public education and for teachers, and against publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school education, in this July 5, 2007 speech.

Sen. Obama's remarks included a number of controversial proposals, including immediate, across-the-board pay raises for teachers, and redesign of standardized tests to support learning, not punishment of teachers.

While Sen. Obama proposed to fix the many substantial problems of the No Child Left Behind Act, he also slammed its shortcomings, and remarked, "... don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of the year preparing him to fill in a few bubbles on a standardized test."

usliberals.about.com/od/extraordinaryspeeches/a/ObamaNCLB.htm
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...do we think we can get this guy to side with me and repeal it?

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If the problem is NCLB, then it needs to go. Kids are graduating stupid these days. Teachers here in AZ live in fear of kids not passing the AIMS tests every few years, because their jobs depend on it.
Another thing to think about.. My son-- he told me every class he had in his first year+ of college was stuff he knew from HS, and they were all required courses. He earned good grades in HS because he was a year round baseball player and I would take his car away from him if he slacked off on his grades. Since he LIVED for baseball he needed that car to travel, so he kept his grades up. College is EXPENSIVE, so why are college kids repeating HS in college?? If they don't have college level skills why are they not still in HS in the first place? I think it is absurd for college kids to waste time and money learning HS subjects. I don't think kids can even get a good public education any more unless parents are involved, and we all know many parents are not. If they see their kid passing courses they think the kid is learning. Not true.
I read an article last year or so about some employers now wanting hand written apps because they are sick of hiring people that can't even read and write proper English.

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<<< If the problem is NCLB, then it needs to go. >>>

...DOE is a problem... can I count on your support about that, too?

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I'm one of those weirdos that would like to see most initial orgs done away with. LOL!!!

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