Daniels eyes Florida's education blueprint

[Myrina]

http://www.indystar.com/article/20090902/NEWS05/909020406/Daniels+eyes+Florida+s+education+blueprint


Yes, please, lets have more "stupider" children in our state.
Many School Districts' insistence on "teaching to the test" and shortage of teachers and continual elimination of "elective" subjects like Music/Art just aren't making our children dumb enough to be completely Republicanized.


OMFG. :wow:

[IndianaGreen]

1. Oy!

I guess this means Daniels will be supporting Jeb when he runs for Prez.

Here is WIBC's reporting:

Jeb Bush Speaks for Education Reform
By Eric Berman
9/2/2009

In eight years as governor, President George W. Bush's brother pushed through a slew of education reforms, including state-funded preschool, performance bonuses for teachers, alternative licensing for teachers without education degrees, and school choice for students in failing schools.

But Bush told Indiana's Education Roundtable the first change that had to be made was a letter-grade report card for schools based on students' performance.

"There was no emphasis on the creation of a database, a bank to be able to mine data to help teachers assure that students could learn," Bush recalls.

Bush half-jokingly says his brother's national school-accountability law, No Child Left Behind, borrowed Florida's plan of annual testing linked to consequences for schools.

Bush says No Child Left Behind has been effective, but says Congress should make one significant change when it reauthorizes the law: giving schools credit for improvement in students' test scores, not solely their passing rates. Under the current law, Bush says there's no reward to schools for encouraging students who are already passing basic-skills tests to excel, nor for making strides with students who still fall short of passing grades.

Bush says it's clear the law's goal of getting every ethnic and economic subgroup of students to pass a basic skills test by 2014 can't be met.

Daniels and state school superintendent Tony Bennett are enthusiastically embracing the full Florida package, though Daniels isn't tipping his hand on what specific changes he might propose to next year's legislature.

http://www.wibc.com/news/Story.aspx?id=1135750

[Myrina]

2. This makes no sense:

"a bank to be able to mine data to help teachers assure that students could learn" .. how can data mining ensure that students can learn?

It may mine what students are taught (here's the report on the liberal arts students you asked for, sir) but there's no way to
quanitify 'who can (is able to) learn' in a database and make any use of it other than to track what they are taught.

:wtf: I will never be able to understand a damn thing a Republican says, I swear.

[plantwomyn]

3. Congress should make one significant change when it reauthorizes the law

Pay for it! No more unfunded mandates. Better yet, don't reauthorize it at all.

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