Obama to cut certain parts of No Child Left Behind by exec order.

craigmatic

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Mon Aug-08-11 01:43 PM
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Obama to cut certain parts of No Child Left Behind by exec order.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A8AD6F72-2594-45F9-9B42-2B209D366BC1

Finally something I can agree with him on. NCLB was a drain on the states, local schools, adminustartion, and teachers. I just hope this doesn't make things worse.

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RUMMYisFROSTED

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Mon Aug-08-11 01:48 PM
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1. Awright!

:woohoo:

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Chimichurri

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Mon Aug-08-11 01:49 PM
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2. This is where I subscribe to cut, cut, cut! I hope he follows through and does so in a

meaningful way.

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MichiganVote

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Mon Aug-08-11 01:52 PM
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3. Educators knew NCLB would be unsustainable. So will RTT.

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liskddksil

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Mon Aug-08-11 02:21 PM
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4. He's just replacing it with Race to the Top Reforms

Which are even more punitive and focused on endless test-prep and teacher evaluations based on test-scores.

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d_r

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Mon Aug-08-11 02:23 PM
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5. No CLB is BS

I don't support focusing so highly on standardized tests, for all the usually cited reasons.

But this is sort of BS too - the reason they are doing this is because so many of the schools are "failing" - the whole provision was that if a school was "failing" according to the nclb tests, then the child could go to another school. Basically, so many were going to be failing that there was no practical way for it to work.

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