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In Government and Policy Longtime education champion and current Chicago City Clerk Miguel del Valle will lead the fight for Illinois to get a share of the $4.3 billion that will be awarded through the federal Race to the Top program.
Governor Pat Quinn appointed former state senator del Valle to chair the state’s 25-member P-20 Council, whose main charge is to oversee the development of a longitudinal data system to track student outcomes from preschool through post-secondary education. The council will also play a role in the state’s bid for competitive Race to the Top funds, which some insiders predict will be awarded to just 10 to 20 states.
Illinois stands to gain between $400 and $500 million to invest in education, Quinn said. “We want to get Illinois in that race and make sure we get as much money as possible from Washington.”
Members were recruited from among the business sector, civic groups, and the education world. Among them: CEO Ron Huberman; Robin Steans, Advance Illinois; state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago); Dea Meyer, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago; Kathy Ryg, Voices for Illinois Children; Jeff Owens, Illinois Community College Board; and John Luczak, The Joyce Foundation.
A longitudinal data system is one of the four reforms targeted in the Race to the Top program, and Illinois has already begun to develop the system, said state Supt. of Education Chris Koch. The other reform areas are turning around the lowest-achieving schools; improving teacher quality, and adopting rigorous learning standards to prepare students to succeed in a global economy.
Educators met in August to begin laying the groundwork for the state’s application. The first of two deadlines is January 2010. Illinois intends to apply in the first phase, said Koch. The council will convene for their first meeting next week.
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Thu Dec 3, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Using innovation and available resources to win Race to the Top funds
Illinois needs to be data driven, evidence based, and innovative in order to compete for Race to the Top funding. We need to demonstrate increased literacy levels in our neediest schools and successfully turn around failing schools.
For instance, in order to make turn around schools successful, we must turn around literacy levels in our neediest schools, in order to do that we must turn around students who come to school behind at 3 years of age due to low print/low verbal households. These students will not be successful readers, learners or classmates, since literacy and social competency are based on language skills. They will also not have the language-based skills of negotiation, problem solving, and critical thinking, necessary for later school and job success. Part of critical thinking is understanding of cause effect; i.e. “If I miss work, am late or don’t work hard I might get fired.”
As Deloitte’s “2005 Skills Gap Report – A Survey of the American Manufacturing Workforce” said, “In addition to shortages of various types of employees, manufacturers surveyed reported they are also dissatisfied with the skills of their current employees. Among respondents to this national survey, nearly half indicated their current employees have inadequate basic employability skills, such as attendance, timeliness and work ethic, while 46 percent reported inadequate problem-solving skills, and 36 percent indicated insufficient reading, writing, and communication skills.” Research shows that these skills are based on language skills learned early in life.
Chicago alone has over 300 speech-language pathologist who have the language changing skills to help all students not only become readers but to have the critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and people skills to be productive employable members of our society. Utilizing speech-language pathologists, in the workload model the state mandates, in order that they may collaborate with classroom and special education teachers at all Tiers of intervention would be an efficacious and cost effective way to achieve the Race to the Top goals. In addition speech-language pathologists are experts in assessment and evidence based practice understanding. Many states such as Virginia have already made their speech-language pathologists intricate members of the Response to Intervention protocol. Illinois has a resource in our SLPs to achieve success in Race to the Top that it has not used to the full extent. Use of the unique skills of the speech-language pathologist will give all students the underlying necessary language skills to be readers, writers, problem solvers, and critical thinkers; successful in school, careers, and life.
For instance, in order to make turn around schools successful, we must turn around literacy levels in our neediest schools, in order to do that we must turn around students who come to school behind at 3 years of age due to low print/low verbal households. These students will not be successful readers, learners or classmates, since literacy and social competency are based on language skills. They will also not have the language-based skills of negotiation, problem solving, and critical thinking, necessary for later school and job success. Part of critical thinking is understanding of cause effect; i.e. “If I miss work, am late or don’t work hard I might get fired.”
As Deloitte’s “2005 Skills Gap Report – A Survey of the American Manufacturing Workforce” said, “In addition to shortages of various types of employees, manufacturers surveyed reported they are also dissatisfied with the skills of their current employees. Among respondents to this national survey, nearly half indicated their current employees have inadequate basic employability skills, such as attendance, timeliness and work ethic, while 46 percent reported inadequate problem-solving skills, and 36 percent indicated insufficient reading, writing, and communication skills.” Research shows that these skills are based on language skills learned early in life.
Chicago alone has over 300 speech-language pathologist who have the language changing skills to help all students not only become readers but to have the critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and people skills to be productive employable members of our society. Utilizing speech-language pathologists, in the workload model the state mandates, in order that they may collaborate with classroom and special education teachers at all Tiers of intervention would be an efficacious and cost effective way to achieve the Race to the Top goals. In addition speech-language pathologists are experts in assessment and evidence based practice understanding. Many states such as Virginia have already made their speech-language pathologists intricate members of the Response to Intervention protocol. Illinois has a resource in our SLPs to achieve success in Race to the Top that it has not used to the full extent. Use of the unique skills of the speech-language pathologist will give all students the underlying necessary language skills to be readers, writers, problem solvers, and critical thinkers; successful in school, careers, and life.
Thu Dec 3, 2009 at 11:24 PM
are you serious?
more testing less teaching. i have many friends now in "data driven" schools and the only thing i hear is that they do much testing that there is really no time for teaching.
anyone who supports duncan's nation wide push to spread the destruction and violence he created in chicago is delusional and sick. and probably has not worked in a school where violence was the product of system wide corruption as is practiced in chicago and now is coming to light in DC.
additionally to my personal views stated above an individual supporting data driven duncan reform completely ignores or has not read the studies of that debunk the data reform nightmare.
Dr. John Kugler
Urban Educator
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
Statistics/Sociology 101
Hawthorne Effect
Campbell's Law
References
ABCTE Teachers in Florida and Their Effect on Student Performance, September 4, 2009. Christina Clark Tuttle http://www.mathematica -mpr.com/ publications/PDFs/ education/ABCTE_FL_Teachers.pdf
Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change
http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/pubs/ops/ops08.pdf
Charter School Performance in 16 States, June 2009. Stanford University. http://credo. stanford.edu /reports/MULTIPLE_CHOICE_EXECUTIVE %20SUMMARY.pdf
Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress
http://dcist.com/2009/11/controversy_over_rhee_now_to_includ.php
Corruption in Reading First Program Shows Need for Additional Safeguards in the Law http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/rel042007rf.html
CQ Transcript: Education Secretary Duncan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ http://www. cqpolitics. com/wmspage. cfm?docID=news- 000003197404
The Firing of the Inspector General for The Corporation for National and Community Service
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20091120JointStaffReport.pdf
Highly Touted Charter School Study Doesn't Stand Up To Scrutiny, November 12, 2009. Sean Reardon. Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice. http://www.great lakescenter. org/docs/ Think_Twice/TT_ Reardon_NYCCharter.pdf
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing
http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/documents/EPSL-0503-101-EPRU.pdf
Inspector General Condemns Reading First Program
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/18960
Letter Report to the U.S. Department of Education on the Race to the Top Fund, Education Innovations Funded By 'Race To The Top' Should Be Rigorously Evaluated; Value-Added Methods To Assess Teachers Not Ready For Use In High-Stakes Decisions, October 5, 2009. National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12780.html
Meet the Press' transcript for Nov. 15, 2009, Arne Duncan, Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton
http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 3032608/ns/ meet_the_press-meet_the_press /#33948109
Report Questions Duncan's Policy of Closing Failing Schools, October 29, 2009. Sam Dillon. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/education/29schools.html
Study: Texas' teacher merit pay program hasn't boosted student performance November 4, 2009 Terrence Stutz. The Dallas Morning News http://www.dallas news.com/shared content/dws/dn/education /stories/110409dnmetmeritpay.41442db.html
The Turnaround Fallacy, Winter 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 1, Education Next. Harvard University. Andy Smarick, http://educationnext. org/the-turnaround- fallacy/
When Schools Close: Effects on Displaced Students in Chicago Public Schools, October 2009. Julia Gwynne and Marisa de la Torre, http://ccsr.uchicago. edu/ publications/ CCSRSchoolClosings-Final.pdf
anyone who supports duncan's nation wide push to spread the destruction and violence he created in chicago is delusional and sick. and probably has not worked in a school where violence was the product of system wide corruption as is practiced in chicago and now is coming to light in DC.
additionally to my personal views stated above an individual supporting data driven duncan reform completely ignores or has not read the studies of that debunk the data reform nightmare.
Dr. John Kugler
Urban Educator
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
Statistics/Sociology 101
Hawthorne Effect
Campbell's Law
References
ABCTE Teachers in Florida and Their Effect on Student Performance, September 4, 2009. Christina Clark Tuttle http://www.mathematica -mpr.com/ publications/PDFs/ education/ABCTE_FL_Teachers.pdf
Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change
http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/pubs/ops/ops08.pdf
Charter School Performance in 16 States, June 2009. Stanford University. http://credo. stanford.edu /reports/MULTIPLE_CHOICE_EXECUTIVE %20SUMMARY.pdf
Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress
http://dcist.com/2009/11/controversy_over_rhee_now_to_includ.php
Corruption in Reading First Program Shows Need for Additional Safeguards in the Law http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/rel042007rf.html
CQ Transcript: Education Secretary Duncan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ http://www. cqpolitics. com/wmspage. cfm?docID=news- 000003197404
The Firing of the Inspector General for The Corporation for National and Community Service
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20091120JointStaffReport.pdf
Highly Touted Charter School Study Doesn't Stand Up To Scrutiny, November 12, 2009. Sean Reardon. Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice. http://www.great lakescenter. org/docs/ Think_Twice/TT_ Reardon_NYCCharter.pdf
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing
http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/documents/EPSL-0503-101-EPRU.pdf
Inspector General Condemns Reading First Program
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/18960
Letter Report to the U.S. Department of Education on the Race to the Top Fund, Education Innovations Funded By 'Race To The Top' Should Be Rigorously Evaluated; Value-Added Methods To Assess Teachers Not Ready For Use In High-Stakes Decisions, October 5, 2009. National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12780.html
Meet the Press' transcript for Nov. 15, 2009, Arne Duncan, Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton
http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 3032608/ns/ meet_the_press-meet_the_press /#33948109
Report Questions Duncan's Policy of Closing Failing Schools, October 29, 2009. Sam Dillon. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/education/29schools.html
Study: Texas' teacher merit pay program hasn't boosted student performance November 4, 2009 Terrence Stutz. The Dallas Morning News http://www.dallas news.com/shared content/dws/dn/education /stories/110409dnmetmeritpay.41442db.html
The Turnaround Fallacy, Winter 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 1, Education Next. Harvard University. Andy Smarick, http://educationnext. org/the-turnaround- fallacy/
When Schools Close: Effects on Displaced Students in Chicago Public Schools, October 2009. Julia Gwynne and Marisa de la Torre, http://ccsr.uchicago. edu/ publications/ CCSRSchoolClosings-Final.pdf
Fri Dec 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM
are you serious?
more testing less teaching. i have many friends now in "data driven" schools and the only thing i hear is that they do much testing that there is really no time for teaching.
anyone who supports duncan's nation wide push to spread the destruction and violence he created in chicago is delusional and sick. and probably has not worked in a school where violence was the product of system wide corruption as is practiced in chicago and now is coming to light in DC.
additionally to my personal views stated above an individual supporting data driven duncan reform completely ignores or has not read the studies of that debunk the data reform nightmare.
Dr. John Kugler
Urban Educator
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
Statistics/Sociology 101
Hawthorne Effect
Campbell's Law
References
ABCTE Teachers in Florida and Their Effect on Student Performance, September 4, 2009. Christina Clark Tuttle http://www.mathematica -mpr.com/ publications/PDFs/ education/ABCTE_FL_Teachers.pdf
Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change
http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/pubs/ops/ops08.pdf
Charter School Performance in 16 States, June 2009. Stanford University. http://credo. stanford.edu /reports/MULTIPLE_CHOICE_EXECUTIVE %20SUMMARY.pdf
Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress
http://dcist.com/2009/11/controversy_over_rhee_now_to_includ.php
Corruption in Reading First Program Shows Need for Additional Safeguards in the Law http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/rel042007rf.html
CQ Transcript: Education Secretary Duncan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ http://www. cqpolitics. com/wmspage. cfm?docID=news- 000003197404
The Firing of the Inspector General for The Corporation for National and Community Service
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20091120JointStaffReport.pdf
Highly Touted Charter School Study Doesn't Stand Up To Scrutiny, November 12, 2009. Sean Reardon. Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice. http://www.great lakescenter. org/docs/ Think_Twice/TT_ Reardon_NYCCharter.pdf
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing
http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/documents/EPSL-0503-101-EPRU.pdf
Inspector General Condemns Reading First Program
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/18960
Letter Report to the U.S. Department of Education on the Race to the Top Fund, Education Innovations Funded By 'Race To The Top' Should Be Rigorously Evaluated; Value-Added Methods To Assess Teachers Not Ready For Use In High-Stakes Decisions, October 5, 2009. National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12780.html
Meet the Press' transcript for Nov. 15, 2009, Arne Duncan, Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton
http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 3032608/ns/ meet_the_press-meet_the_press /#33948109
Report Questions Duncan's Policy of Closing Failing Schools, October 29, 2009. Sam Dillon. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/education/29schools.html
Study: Texas' teacher merit pay program hasn't boosted student performance November 4, 2009 Terrence Stutz. The Dallas Morning News http://www.dallas news.com/shared content/dws/dn/education /stories/110409dnmetmeritpay.41442db.html
The Turnaround Fallacy, Winter 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 1, Education Next. Harvard University. Andy Smarick, http://educationnext. org/the-turnaround- fallacy/
When Schools Close: Effects on Displaced Students in Chicago Public Schools, October 2009. Julia Gwynne and Marisa de la Torre, http://ccsr.uchicago. edu/ publications/ CCSRSchoolClosings-Final.pdf
anyone who supports duncan's nation wide push to spread the destruction and violence he created in chicago is delusional and sick. and probably has not worked in a school where violence was the product of system wide corruption as is practiced in chicago and now is coming to light in DC.
additionally to my personal views stated above an individual supporting data driven duncan reform completely ignores or has not read the studies of that debunk the data reform nightmare.
Dr. John Kugler
Urban Educator
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
Statistics/Sociology 101
Hawthorne Effect
Campbell's Law
References
ABCTE Teachers in Florida and Their Effect on Student Performance, September 4, 2009. Christina Clark Tuttle http://www.mathematica -mpr.com/ publications/PDFs/ education/ABCTE_FL_Teachers.pdf
Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change
http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/pubs/ops/ops08.pdf
Charter School Performance in 16 States, June 2009. Stanford University. http://credo. stanford.edu /reports/MULTIPLE_CHOICE_EXECUTIVE %20SUMMARY.pdf
Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress
http://dcist.com/2009/11/controversy_over_rhee_now_to_includ.php
Corruption in Reading First Program Shows Need for Additional Safeguards in the Law http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/rel042007rf.html
CQ Transcript: Education Secretary Duncan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ http://www. cqpolitics. com/wmspage. cfm?docID=news- 000003197404
The Firing of the Inspector General for The Corporation for National and Community Service
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20091120JointStaffReport.pdf
Highly Touted Charter School Study Doesn't Stand Up To Scrutiny, November 12, 2009. Sean Reardon. Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice. http://www.great lakescenter. org/docs/ Think_Twice/TT_ Reardon_NYCCharter.pdf
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing
http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/documents/EPSL-0503-101-EPRU.pdf
Inspector General Condemns Reading First Program
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/18960
Letter Report to the U.S. Department of Education on the Race to the Top Fund, Education Innovations Funded By 'Race To The Top' Should Be Rigorously Evaluated; Value-Added Methods To Assess Teachers Not Ready For Use In High-Stakes Decisions, October 5, 2009. National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12780.html
Meet the Press' transcript for Nov. 15, 2009, Arne Duncan, Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton
http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 3032608/ns/ meet_the_press-meet_the_press /#33948109
Report Questions Duncan's Policy of Closing Failing Schools, October 29, 2009. Sam Dillon. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/education/29schools.html
Study: Texas' teacher merit pay program hasn't boosted student performance November 4, 2009 Terrence Stutz. The Dallas Morning News http://www.dallas news.com/shared content/dws/dn/education /stories/110409dnmetmeritpay.41442db.html
The Turnaround Fallacy, Winter 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 1, Education Next. Harvard University. Andy Smarick, http://educationnext. org/the-turnaround- fallacy/
When Schools Close: Effects on Displaced Students in Chicago Public Schools, October 2009. Julia Gwynne and Marisa de la Torre, http://ccsr.uchicago. edu/ publications/ CCSRSchoolClosings-Final.pdf
Fri Dec 4, 2009 at 12:44 AM
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This Senate staff report is related the investigation of Kevin Johnson's eligibility to receive federal grant funding for his charter schools after he was found to be misusing grant money and sexual conduct with students from his charter school. When Johnson wanted to get some of the ARRA funds he got Obama to take the IG off the case because he was against Johnson getting off of his debarment from federal ed funding. It is connected to Michelle Rhee the DC School Superintendent because she tried to cover-up the sex and grant misuse by Johnson a charter school operator and her fiancee.
John Kugler
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
The Firing of the Inspector General for
The Corporation for National and Community Service
Joint Staff Report
111th Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Ranking Member
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Rep. Darrell Issa, Ranking Member
November 20, 2009
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20091120JointStaffReport.pd
John Kugler
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
The Firing of the Inspector General for
The Corporation for National and Community Service
Joint Staff Report
111th Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Ranking Member
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Rep. Darrell Issa, Ranking Member
November 20, 2009
http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20091120JointStaffReport.pd
Fri Dec 4, 2009 at 5:56 AM
Governor names council for Illinois bid to win Race to the Top funds
Let's get to the nut! Working in isolation. U.S. teachers report little professional collaboration in designing curriculum and sharing practices, and the collaboration that occurs tends to be weak and not focused on strengthening teaching and learning.
Major blind spots. Teachers are not getting adequate training in teaching special education or limited English proficient students. More than two-thirds of teachers nationally had not had even one day of training in supporting the learning of special education or LEP students during the previous three years, and only one-third agreed that they had been given the support they needed to teach students with special needs.
Lack of utility. Teachers give relatively high marks to content-related learning opportunities, with 59 percent saying this training was useful or very useful. But fewer than half found the professional development they received in other areas, such as classroom management, to be of much value, despite the fact that they want more support in this area.
Out-of-pocket payments. U.S. teachers, unlike many of their colleagues around the world, bear much of the cost of their professional development. While most teachers were given some time off during the work day to pursue professional learning opportunities, fewer than half received reimbursement for travel, workshop fees, or college expenses.
http://www.srnleads.org/press/prs/nsdc_profdev.html
Major blind spots. Teachers are not getting adequate training in teaching special education or limited English proficient students. More than two-thirds of teachers nationally had not had even one day of training in supporting the learning of special education or LEP students during the previous three years, and only one-third agreed that they had been given the support they needed to teach students with special needs.
Lack of utility. Teachers give relatively high marks to content-related learning opportunities, with 59 percent saying this training was useful or very useful. But fewer than half found the professional development they received in other areas, such as classroom management, to be of much value, despite the fact that they want more support in this area.
Out-of-pocket payments. U.S. teachers, unlike many of their colleagues around the world, bear much of the cost of their professional development. While most teachers were given some time off during the work day to pursue professional learning opportunities, fewer than half received reimbursement for travel, workshop fees, or college expenses.
http://www.srnleads.org/press/prs/nsdc_profdev.html
Fri Dec 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Governor names council for Illinois bid to win Race to the Top funds
When education and business leaders begin to think "out of the box", which I mean "out of the traditional public/private 9am-3pm school building", then we will be able to tap many other resources of people and ideas, and many other places and time frames, where we can "race" to help urban, suburban and rural kids compete in this race.
Right now, the best think business leaders can do to assure a better and more diverse workforce is use corporate communications to encourage funding and volunteering in non-school tutor/mentor programs where volunteers can build their own personal skills while helping the next generation of kids have extra adult and learning support to influence their own aspirations and ability to compete in this race.
I say right now because it's the Holiday Fund Raising season, when many non profits raise more than 50% of their operating revenue for the entire year. If business leaders don't push operating dollars to these non profits, like the support stores in multiple locations, many of these places may not be in business in 2010, meaning many more kids will be left with out a chance to even get into this race.
Use the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program locator at http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net to find contact information for different tutoring and/or mentoring programs in the Chicago area.
Read the http://tutormentor.blogspot.com articles for more "out of the box" thinking on this topic.
Right now, the best think business leaders can do to assure a better and more diverse workforce is use corporate communications to encourage funding and volunteering in non-school tutor/mentor programs where volunteers can build their own personal skills while helping the next generation of kids have extra adult and learning support to influence their own aspirations and ability to compete in this race.
I say right now because it's the Holiday Fund Raising season, when many non profits raise more than 50% of their operating revenue for the entire year. If business leaders don't push operating dollars to these non profits, like the support stores in multiple locations, many of these places may not be in business in 2010, meaning many more kids will be left with out a chance to even get into this race.
Use the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program locator at http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net to find contact information for different tutoring and/or mentoring programs in the Chicago area.
Read the http://tutormentor.blogspot.com articles for more "out of the box" thinking on this topic.
Fri Dec 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
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from the epicenter of NCLB
Texas students struggle on early versions of end-of-course tests
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/120309dntswtests.3b36e18.html
so what do we do now with these students? fail them, change the test, fire the teachers, remedial classes(all the things pushed by duncan and the datamaniacs)
what should be done is give the students what they need to be successful at their grade level: teachers that are not under the threat of termination(charters), demotion(turnaround) or loss of pay(merit). punishment is not the answer. race to the top itself presupposes that their will be a loser just in its title.
“In too many places I think, Bob, we are — honestly, we’re lying to children,” Duncan added, “And let me explain what I mean. If a child hears they’re quote-unquote 'meeting the state standard,' that child, that parent, the logical assumption is, they’re going to be on track to be successful. But in way too many places around the country, children that are meeting that standard, because the bar is so low because it has been dummied down, they’re barely able to go to high school — to graduate from high school and they are totally inadequately prepared to be successful in higher education. That has to change.... We have to stop lying to children.” (Arne Duncan, Face the Nation, 12/6/09)
John Kugler
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
Reference
CQ Transcript: Education Secretary Duncan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003197404
Texas students struggle on early versions of end-of-course tests
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/120309dntswtests.3b36e18.html
so what do we do now with these students? fail them, change the test, fire the teachers, remedial classes(all the things pushed by duncan and the datamaniacs)
what should be done is give the students what they need to be successful at their grade level: teachers that are not under the threat of termination(charters), demotion(turnaround) or loss of pay(merit). punishment is not the answer. race to the top itself presupposes that their will be a loser just in its title.
“In too many places I think, Bob, we are — honestly, we’re lying to children,” Duncan added, “And let me explain what I mean. If a child hears they’re quote-unquote 'meeting the state standard,' that child, that parent, the logical assumption is, they’re going to be on track to be successful. But in way too many places around the country, children that are meeting that standard, because the bar is so low because it has been dummied down, they’re barely able to go to high school — to graduate from high school and they are totally inadequately prepared to be successful in higher education. That has to change.... We have to stop lying to children.” (Arne Duncan, Face the Nation, 12/6/09)
John Kugler
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
Reference
CQ Transcript: Education Secretary Duncan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003197404
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