Posted on 12/28/2010 9:22:40 AM PST by Academiadotorg
A new report contains a sobering reality for would-be education reformers: Bad schools usually don’t get better. “After identifying more than 2,000 low-performing charter and district schools across ten states, analyst David Stuit tracked them from 2003-04 through 2008-09 to determine how many were turned around, shut down, or remained low-performing,” the Education Trust found. “Results were generally dismal.”
“Seventy-two percent of the original low-performing charters remained in operation—and remained low-performing—five years later. So did 80 percent of district schools.”
Despite the claims of proponents of No Child Left Behind, many children obviously were, even as federal outlays on education exploded along with the budget for the U. S. Department of Education.
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.
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More pay, more money, more time, more bureaucracy, more Federal intervention, more taxes, more teacher benefits, more protection for bad schools and bad teachers, more resistance to change, more "social promotion", more drop-outs, more resistance to privatization, more union involvement, more union political donations to protectionist politicians, and more cover up.
BREAK THE CYCLE, BREAK THE SYSTEM...it CAN'T be ANY worse!
The solution is obvious: more money, more federal administrators.
Teach crap, get crap. It’s that simple.
Treason is quite nearly the entire goal of public schools, universities and academia, plain and simple. Recapture the schools and the churches and America is reclaimed. Ignore the state of schools or discuss the state of schools and what happens either way? Nothing. Republicans for decades have placed the school breeding ground for marxism no where on their agenda, whether in their campaigns or in their congressional actions. Another generation of Obama types are coming along because we have done nothing to change it.
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