Is Bush’s education reform flunking?

[dArKeR]

Earlier this summer, school officials in California announced the preliminary results from their latest round of standardized testing, and the results were ugly: Roughly two out of three schools had failed to meet the state’s standards for academic progress.

 BUT WHAT SOUNDS like bad news for California’s students could be even worse news for the Bush administration and for education reform: The state’s academic standards track closely with those of the No Child Left Behind Act, the education bill that Bush signed into law with bipartisan support and great fanfare less than two years ago. If other states go the way of California, as many expect, there is about to be a lot of bad news surrounding No Child Left Behind—and a serious chance that No Child Left Behind will itself be left behind.
       
INDIFFERENCE, RESISTANCE
       NCLB was supposed to improve schools by holding them to higher academic standards and letting students transfer out of failing schools. Instead, over the past few months especially, this massive education law has generated little more than bad news, indifference, and increasing resistance. The hard-to-imagine numbers of failing schools in California and elsewhere have worn down the public’s confidence in the law. Low-income and minority parents have failed to show strong interest in the transfer option that was supposed to help them escape dysfunctional schools.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/958711.asp?0cv=CB20

If I was given Independent Council authority, I swear I could prove Bush cheat his was through Yale. Cheating for a C-, how pathetic!

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Since it was Whistle Ass' goal to junk education, I'd say

he's passing with flying colors.

[priller]

2. My dad, who just retired as a long-time school superintendent

thought Bush's "edumacation" plan was the stupidest thing he'd ever seen. And he's a Republican! As he explained it to me, the chief idiocy of the plan is that it rates schools based solely on how much they improve (or worsen) each year, without taking into account the overall achievement level of the school. So, for example, if your school is already very good, the odds of making it significantly better are small. And, under NCLB, if that school doesn't show marked improvement, it gets labeled as a "failing school".

He said most school districts are quietly ignoring the law as much as they can.

BTW, this article seems rather slanted to me. While the author recognizes that almost no one in education likes the law, at the end he tries to give a strained justification for it. "For all its flaws, NCLB is not all that bad." Sorry, if it has a lot of flaws, then it IS bad. He even states that many of the basic elements of the law were put in place during the Clinton era, without saying that many of the bad flaws were added by the Bushies.

[iam]

3. Right

This shows how the conservative media always has to search and search to find something bad about liberalism whenever they expose conservative treachery.