[shag377]

My thoughts about NCLB are the same as they always have been.

In Georgia, where I live, the early grades are notorious about socially promoting kids left and right who obviously cannot do the work of the higher grade.

They make it all the way to high school, cannot read, do simple math or much of anything, but I am expected to work magic on them and get them to graduate high school.

Unfortunately, no amount of federal intervention is going to change the fact that some kids will simply never graduate high school, and if they all did, they should all be physicians. If you can make it out of high school, you can make it into and out of college.

[Amelia]

In Georgia, where I live, the early grades are notorious about socially promoting kids left and right who obviously cannot do the work of the higher grade.

I'm wondering if RTI will end some of that...or at least result in better remediation.

I think that instead of funding "graduation coaches" in middle and high schools, Gov. Perdue would have been better off suggesting reading specialists.

[bboop]

In California, you can go to the City College at age 18, with or without a HS diploma.