No Child Left Behind and the Brewing Fight Over Education
There's broad consensus on education reform, but there are deep fault lines underneath
That's why despite everything else on his plate, if he's serious about seeing education reform in 2010 President Obama must expend political capital on it himself. So far education policy is providing a surprising success for the president. Few thought the issue would be the green shoot it has become on Obama's agenda. Improving the No Child law and firmly embedding the Obama-Duncan stamp on federal education policy is the president's chance to see education reform through and claim a genuine policy accomplishment for 2012. Or, conversely, it's an opportunity to watch reform unravel as status-quo-challenging changes in American education too often do.
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Education Reform
I am a teacher. I am successful with most students but not all. Most refroms call for getting ride of "bad" teacher reforming low performing schools. Reform rarely or ever talks about society and families. The families that value education and intellectual work do well. Those taht pay lip service to it do not. I have parents who will sign that a child did something when they didn't, they return failed papers with notes asking why I didn't do a better job, not their child but me. This parent wanted to know if they could skip a nights homework each week since it conflicted with sports practice. Intellectual thought has declined, we just want to watch someone elses life on TV. My father was a farmer, but he had a degree from the University of California-Davis, I grew up with both physical and mental work to do. Now we've become lazy and undiscipilned.
time to change how textbooks are created and approved
I have found that one of fastest ways to cut costs is for government to pay to create the baseline with its own money and then make it available for free or a small user fee to build in changes in the future.
What a great way for school districts to be able to stretch those dollars and build in individual learning.
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