Clinton & Obama Heat Up On Education [html]
Obama unveils $18 billion education plan
"It's pretty popular to bash No Child Left Behind out on the campaign trail, but when it was being debated in Congress four years ago, my colleague Dick Durbin offered a chance to vote so that the law couldn't be enforced unless it was fully funded," Obama said. "A lot of senators, including Senator Edwards and Senator Clinton, passed on that chance."
Clinton Raps Teacher Merit Pay AP
Performance-based merit pay for teachers is a bad idea, Hillary Rodham Clinton told Iowa teachers on Monday. School uniforms for kids, however, is worth looking at.
PLUS: Clinton mocks Obama for touting his childhood experience abroad.[/html] 
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Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 7:11 PM
Clinton & Obama Heat Up On Education
Don't forget readers Arne Duncan supports Obama.
Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 7:57 AM
Clinton & Obama Heat Up On Education
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If Mr. Obama wins I hope he will not forget that it was Debbie Lynch
And the CTU which first saw in him the potential he is now using in Iowa.
That is long before Arnie or The Mayor endorsed him for anything.
If Mr. Obama wins I hope he will not forget that it was Debbie Lynch
And the CTU which first saw in him the potential he is now using in Iowa.
That is long before Arnie or The Mayor endorsed him for anything.
Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 12:43 AM
Clinton & Obama Heat Up On Education
The only presidential candidate I've heard who wants to abolish the infamous teacher bashing (and anti public school) No Child Left Behind law is Bill Richardson.
At Yearly Kos in August, I heard Richardson say that as governor of New Mexico he had faced the impossibility -- as an executive, not as a legislator -- of complying with the law in his state. He said that NCLB must be abolished.
Now that NCLB has failed to be "reauthorized," the candidates should be asked directly whether they are for returning federal Title One to its original purpose (providing federal help to children in public schools facing the challenges of poverty) and ending the NeoCon (and NeoLiberal) privatization plan that was foisted on us with No Child Left Behind. No Child Left Behind's intrusion into the business of every school board in the USA has been bad from the beginning (except for privatization fans and testing and textbook companies, which are often the same), has disrupted every classroom with test-driven drivel instead of a full curriculum for every child, and will only get worse between now and 2014. The sooner No Child Left Behind is ended the faster public schools can get back to the American mission of educating all children, instead of madly testing everyone to prove (which we already know) that most poor children score "badly" and most wealtheir children score "better" or "best" on secret, multiple choice, computerized, so-called "standardized" tests.
The abolition of NCLB is the issue for the candidates when they talk about "education" -- not pussyfooting around the periphery on things like "merit pay" or "full funding" (which, by the way, the Bush administration has always claimed it has done).
So far, Obama and Clinton are both still out there in favor of renewing No Child Left Behind, rather than restoring a proper federal program for alleviating the burdens brought to the public schools by poverty in the homes of millions of American children. Until they come out, like Richardson, for a restoration of public education in the USA, why should anyone listen to any of the rest of what they are saying about "education"? NCLB is what's driving education policy in every public school district in the USA, and things are only going to get worse.
Any presidential candidate who favors the continuation of NCLB is an opponent of public schools. So far, that's where both Obama (who benefited from both public and private schooling) and Clinton (who had a public school education through 12th grade out in Park Ridge) have been.
At Yearly Kos in August, I heard Richardson say that as governor of New Mexico he had faced the impossibility -- as an executive, not as a legislator -- of complying with the law in his state. He said that NCLB must be abolished.
Now that NCLB has failed to be "reauthorized," the candidates should be asked directly whether they are for returning federal Title One to its original purpose (providing federal help to children in public schools facing the challenges of poverty) and ending the NeoCon (and NeoLiberal) privatization plan that was foisted on us with No Child Left Behind. No Child Left Behind's intrusion into the business of every school board in the USA has been bad from the beginning (except for privatization fans and testing and textbook companies, which are often the same), has disrupted every classroom with test-driven drivel instead of a full curriculum for every child, and will only get worse between now and 2014. The sooner No Child Left Behind is ended the faster public schools can get back to the American mission of educating all children, instead of madly testing everyone to prove (which we already know) that most poor children score "badly" and most wealtheir children score "better" or "best" on secret, multiple choice, computerized, so-called "standardized" tests.
The abolition of NCLB is the issue for the candidates when they talk about "education" -- not pussyfooting around the periphery on things like "merit pay" or "full funding" (which, by the way, the Bush administration has always claimed it has done).
So far, Obama and Clinton are both still out there in favor of renewing No Child Left Behind, rather than restoring a proper federal program for alleviating the burdens brought to the public schools by poverty in the homes of millions of American children. Until they come out, like Richardson, for a restoration of public education in the USA, why should anyone listen to any of the rest of what they are saying about "education"? NCLB is what's driving education policy in every public school district in the USA, and things are only going to get worse.
Any presidential candidate who favors the continuation of NCLB is an opponent of public schools. So far, that's where both Obama (who benefited from both public and private schooling) and Clinton (who had a public school education through 12th grade out in Park Ridge) have been.
Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 1:28 AM
Clinton & Obama Heat Up On Education
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The only presidential candidate I've heard who wants to abolish the infamous teacher bashing (and anti public school) No Child Left Behind law is Bill Richardson.
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Dennis Kucinich was the first of any of the Democrats to make take a clear public stance against standardized testing issues like NCLB.
The only presidential candidate I've heard who wants to abolish the infamous teacher bashing (and anti public school) No Child Left Behind law is Bill Richardson.
>>>
Dennis Kucinich was the first of any of the Democrats to make take a clear public stance against standardized testing issues like NCLB.
Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 4:52 AM
Clinton & Obama Heat Up On Education
So now it's Kucinich and Richardson for repeal of NCLB and a return to sane federal policy on public education.
Any others?
Far as my friends and I are concerned, if the "major" candidates are weasling on the negative impact of secret, high-stakes, multiple choice, class biased, computer scores, so-called "standardized" tests as a measure of the value of public schools (and the teachers, principals and children in them), then the future bodes ill. Every piece of research on these types of tests has shown that they measure economic and social class more accurately than they measure anything that goes on inside our schools.
The Democratic Party candidates are going to have to come up with better policies than George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind if they are really going to be posing solutions to some of the most intractable problems in the USA. Not all the problems we're facing involve a lousy system of medical care and wars in the Middle East.
Any others?
Far as my friends and I are concerned, if the "major" candidates are weasling on the negative impact of secret, high-stakes, multiple choice, class biased, computer scores, so-called "standardized" tests as a measure of the value of public schools (and the teachers, principals and children in them), then the future bodes ill. Every piece of research on these types of tests has shown that they measure economic and social class more accurately than they measure anything that goes on inside our schools.
The Democratic Party candidates are going to have to come up with better policies than George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind if they are really going to be posing solutions to some of the most intractable problems in the USA. Not all the problems we're facing involve a lousy system of medical care and wars in the Middle East.
Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 4:37 PM
Clinton & Obama Heat Up On Education
Arne Duncan is mentioned to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education if Obama wins. Well CPS wins and Stewart (arne's secret friend) wins. Parents lose.
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