After a long stalemate, a bipartisan team of congressional negotiators has agreed to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The law, currently known as No Child Left Behind, sends roughly $14 billion a year to schools that serve mostly low-income students.
Here's what we know about the rough agreement. First, annual testing — a major feature of NCLB — would remain for grades three through eight and at least once in high school. Schools would still have to test 95 percent of their students and report the results by race, income and special need.
Delia Pompa, former vice president with the National Council of La Raza, says this requirement is crucial.
"It is the mechanism that brought to light how children in subgroups — I'm talking about Latinos, African Americans, children in poverty, limited english-proficient children — how they're doing."
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5 comments:
Wasn't that Laura Bush's big program as First Lady?
We all know that No Child Left Behind is really Every Child Left Behind.
Government mass education needs to end let local counties educate according to the citizens.
We need to get away from racial tracking as a whole, all it has proven to do is perpetuate stereotypes and continue the race wars. Instead, let's work on teaching all children, and the parents, that education and good behavior is valued and held in high regard in our county. Students should be disciplined equally according to what they did wrong, not according to their skin color, and if any monies are awarded, it should be to teach children skills necessary to act appropriately and to think for themselves, so ultimately they may become contributing citizens within our community. Character education should be at the forefront of all of our schools.
10:02 There is a huge difference between perpetuating stereotypes, and validating them.
Character education is primarily the parents' responsibility, and a shocking percentage of those parents have utterly failed their children in that aspect. All the schools can really do, is to recite platitudes. If a child is corrected and disciplined based on one set of values in school (or not), but another at home (or not disciplined at all), he is likely to act out his frustration and confusion to test out his real boundaries.
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