Oscar Wao
Victory is Mine
I'd like it if he nixed NCLB.
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tell it to all the sheepskins doing time with me in construction RW'er
all the jobs they could have had have been sold down the NAFTA river......~S~
If you look at the countries with better results in education, the results are interesting. No child left behind would never happen there. Through difficult advancement tests, they weed out the underachievers and help the gifted reach their potential through excellent instruction. No teaching to the bottom tier and keeping their self-esteem intact. It is the only way to fix US public schools. Hope your ready for merit based education.
But the bottom tier is the key to education. These are the people who end up unemployable, the ones who end up pregnant, the ones who end up in prison, the "burdens on society" that the right wing hates so much.
It is these students in danger of flunking out, the ones with no skills that if you motivate them, teach them employable skills can go on to be upstanding taxpaying citiizens
Anyone can take a gifted student and send him to college. The real challenge is to take marginal students and turn them into productive workers
If you look at the countries with better results in education, the results are interesting. No child left behind would never happen there. Through difficult advancement tests, they weed out the underachievers and help the gifted reach their potential through excellent instruction. No teaching to the bottom tier and keeping their self-esteem intact. It is the only way to fix US public schools. Hope your ready for merit based education.
But the bottom tier is the key to education. These are the people who end up unemployable, the ones who end up pregnant, the ones who end up in prison, the "burdens on society" that the right wing hates so much.
It is these students in danger of flunking out, the ones with no skills that if you motivate them, teach them employable skills can go on to be upstanding taxpaying citiizens
Anyone can take a gifted student and send him to college. The real challenge is to take marginal students and turn them into productive workers
The lower skill jobs and pay you will receive ARE the motivators. These other countries don't need a, "no kid left behind program". Why do we? I also think it is not very realistic to expect that motivation comes from anywhere else but within.
You think I give a fuck what you think? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAMy wife is a teacher here in Atlanta. When she read this she laughed out loud and walked away after saying that its screwed up now but after Obamay gets his hands on it, it will be totally fucked up.
BTW, my wife doesnt cuss and is not political.
I smell bullshit, that sounds like hack talk right there.
Show me one thing Obamay has touched that hasnt gone to shit. This will be more of the same. More BS for teachers and red tape. Like they dont have enough federal BS to put up with now. You think Obamay going to lessen that? If you do then you are a bigger fool than I thought.
Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids - Yahoo! News
ATLANTA President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
A plan to overhaul the 2002 education law championed by President George W. Bush was unveiled by the Obama administration Saturday in hopes of replacing a system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.
In the proposed dismantling of the No Child Left Behind law, education officials would move away from punishing schools that don't meet benchmarks and focus on rewarding schools for progress, particularly with poor and minority students. Obama intends to send a rewrite to Congress on Monday of the law.
The proposed changes call for states to adopt standards that ensure students are ready for college or a career rather than grade-level proficiency the focus of the current law.
The blueprint also would allow states to use subjects other than reading and mathematics as part of their measurements for meeting federal goals, pleasing many education groups that have said No Child Left Behind encouraged teachers not to focus on history, art, science, social studies and other important subjects.
A few other highlights from the blueprint:
By 2020, all students graduating from high school would need to be ready for college or a career. That's a shift away from the current law, which calls for all students to be performing at grade level in reading and math by 2014.
Give more rewards money and flexibility to high-poverty schools that are seeing big gains in student achievement and use them as a model for other schools in low-income neighborhoods that struggle with performance.
Punish the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools using aggressive measures, such as having the state take over federal funding for poor students, replacing the principal and half the teaching staff or closing the school altogether.
Duncan has said the name No Child Left Behind will be dropped because it is associated with a harsh law that punishes schools for not reaching benchmarks even if they've made big gains. He said the administration will work with Congress to come up with a new name.
This is a big plus for the President.
I have come to realize that he has assumed the wrong office, as he would have been an astounding Sec'y of Education.
It's about time. This is one of the reasons I voted for Obama, because he said he was going to change....
This is GREAT news!
It's not the Government's job to get them into anything; parents are responsible for providing such guidance for to children.
Education should involve acquiring basic knowledge and skills that enable the child to have a variety of choices. A curriculum with solid basics supplemented with some specilization (deeper science, math, vocational) - supported by values encouraged by the parents is the best balance, imo.
We've had a quite a few years of increased Federal interference with the results being less effective schools and higher rates of illiteracy. More Federal involvement is not the solution.
But the bottom tier is the key to education. These are the people who end up unemployable, the ones who end up pregnant, the ones who end up in prison, the "burdens on society" that the right wing hates so much.
It is these students in danger of flunking out, the ones with no skills that if you motivate them, teach them employable skills can go on to be upstanding taxpaying citiizens
Anyone can take a gifted student and send him to college. The real challenge is to take marginal students and turn them into productive workers
The lower skill jobs and pay you will receive ARE the motivators. These other countries don't need a, "no kid left behind program". Why do we? I also think it is not very realistic to expect that motivation comes from anywhere else but within.
You don't expect teachers to motivate students? Wouldn't that make school even more boring than it is now?
Why should it matter where your motivation comes from?
The lower skill jobs and pay you will receive ARE the motivators. These other countries don't need a, "no kid left behind program". Why do we? I also think it is not very realistic to expect that motivation comes from anywhere else but within.
You don't expect teachers to motivate students? Wouldn't that make school even more boring than it is now?
Why should it matter where your motivation comes from?
I expect teachers to teach using methods best suited to their students. I expect parents and students to be the motivators.
You don't expect teachers to motivate students? Wouldn't that make school even more boring than it is now?
Why should it matter where your motivation comes from?
I expect teachers to teach using methods best suited to their students. I expect parents and students to be the motivators.
Isn't motivation a good thing? Why should it be restricted to just your parents?
I know many people that were motivated by teachers, their pastor, a neighbor,the president, a famous person......
In the proposed dismantling of the No Child Left Behind law, education officials would move away from punishing schools that don't meet benchmarks....
Punish the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools using aggressive measures, such as having the state take over federal funding for poor students, replacing the principal and half the teaching staff or closing the school altogether.
I expect teachers to teach using methods best suited to their students. I expect parents and students to be the motivators.
Isn't motivation a good thing? Why should it be restricted to just your parents?
I know many people that were motivated by teachers, their pastor, a neighbor,the president, a famous person......
You are suggesting the US taxpayer be the motivator. I am suggesting the best source of motivation is yourself and your parents. You are not going to motivate me into thinking my money is necessary to motivate someone else. You might be able to legally steal it, but that is all.
Here's some real motivation for you....Isn't motivation a good thing? Why should it be restricted to just your parents?
I know many people that were motivated by teachers, their pastor, a neighbor,the president, a famous person......
You are suggesting the US taxpayer be the motivator. I am suggesting the best source of motivation is yourself and your parents. You are not going to motivate me into thinking my money is necessary to motivate someone else. You might be able to legally steal it, but that is all.
US taxpayers have been motivating students for hundreds of years through building schools, hiring good teachers, setting up curriculums, buying textbooks
Here's some real motivation for you....You are suggesting the US taxpayer be the motivator. I am suggesting the best source of motivation is yourself and your parents. You are not going to motivate me into thinking my money is necessary to motivate someone else. You might be able to legally steal it, but that is all.
US taxpayers have been motivating students for hundreds of years through building schools, hiring good teachers, setting up curriculums, buying textbooks
Curses foiled again!I just found out what Barry is up too:
My Way News - Dems seek agreement, quick vote on health care
Its a PAYOFF to pass healthcare, they are going to ride this on the Barrycare bill to make it pass!
ANOTHER back room dirty deal!!!
So it looks like after Obama fixes healthcare he is going to fix our education system
Damn! This guy is GOOD
Curses foiled again!I just found out what Barry is up too:
My Way News - Dems seek agreement, quick vote on health care
Its a PAYOFF to pass healthcare, they are going to ride this on the Barrycare bill to make it pass!
ANOTHER back room dirty deal!!!
So it looks like after Obama fixes healthcare he is going to fix our education system
Damn! This guy is GOOD
Why are you so dependent upon Obama to fix things for you?
Are you so inept that you can't provide healthcare for your family and an education for your children?
Isn't motivation a good thing? Why should it be restricted to just your parents?
I know many people that were motivated by teachers, their pastor, a neighbor,the president, a famous person......
You are suggesting the US taxpayer be the motivator. I am suggesting the best source of motivation is yourself and your parents. You are not going to motivate me into thinking my money is necessary to motivate someone else. You might be able to legally steal it, but that is all.
US taxpayers have been motivating students for hundreds of years through building schools, hiring good teachers, setting up curriculums, buying textbooks
Curses foiled again!
So it looks like after Obama fixes healthcare he is going to fix our education system
Damn! This guy is GOOD
Why are you so dependent upon Obama to fix things for you?
Are you so inept that you can't provide healthcare for your family and an education for your children?
My family is well taken care of. Unlike Conservatives, I care about the needs of ALL Americans, not just the ones I happen to like.
The "I got mine....the hell with everyone else" just doesn't cut it