U.S. eases test rules for immigrant kids

Chicago Tribune ^ | 2-20-04 | Tracy Dell'Angela and Jodi S. Cohen

[JustPiper]

WARNING: Anger Management Needed!

Schools with large populations of immigrant students will soon get some breathing room from testing requirements under reforms announced Thursday by federal and state education officials.

Educators have complained that the current testing system too often labels as failures children with limited English skills and the schools where they are concentrated. Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools are held accountable for the test scores of various subgroups of students, including those with limited English skills.

Long article but a necessary read

[JustPiper]

Long article but a necessary read!

[JustPiper]

A Must Ping!

[JustPiper]

You will want to read this entire article, especially parents!

[Spiff]

Wow! Not only are we hell-bent upon importing poverty and illiteracy at unprecedented rates. But now we're hell-bent upon keeping these people impoverished and illiterate.

Fill in the blank: This is a recipe for ________________.

[George W. Bush]

Like always, these tests founder as soon as some liberal educator starts whining. If the whining doesn't work, they threaten to 'sue the racists who force the test on them and cut off their money unfairly'.

This nationalized education scheme is a big ol' sham.

The test results will end up showing that all of America is a Lake Woebegone where all the children are just a bit above average.

[FITZ]

So now they'll go with a "No child left behind but the Mexican child" policy. Really they might as well ---- it comes down to the parents ---- when they are too lazy to teach the child basic skills needed for entering kindergarten or even Head Start programs and discourage their child from learning English, learning their colors or alphabet, never buy the child books, crayons etc --- there's not much the schools can do.

[FITZ]

Fill in the blank: This is a recipe for __Mexico_____________.


It does look like that's where we're headed.

[Ohioan]

Two insane programs collide: The silly pretense that you can possibly have an educational system that both educates anyone, and still leaves no child behind, meets the silly pretense that it does not matter who comes into your society, that people are somehow interchangeable.

Guess what. The Federal Government cannot repeal reality, and this is never going to sort out in a way that the proponents of either of those very, very silly ideas, would like.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Missouri]

BUMP.

Just more of "a world turned upside down."

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

BTTT for later.

[ladylib]

My brother taught ESL at a public school last year. Some kid from Asia arrived at his school (couldn't speak a word of English) and the principal told him he had to test him under NCLB.

How stupid is that?

A couple of months ago, some silly lady from the U.S. Department of Education insisted (with a straight face) that Down's Syndrome children will take the same tests as normal children and will be required to pass them under NCLB by 2014.

I sort of figured out NCLB is a fraud and a joke.

[ladylib]

You've got that one right.

[Ben Ficklin]

NCLB is based on the success of TASS.

The Gold Star State

[JustPiper]

This is a recipe for ________________.

Tortilla soup? ;)

[JustPiper]

When they had their busride last year and were stopped by Border Patrol in Texas, the agents were told to leave them alone for it is 'profiling' that's their excuse for everything. Oh, btw, it was two of our own Congressman that spewed this.

[JustPiper]

What I still don't get is, is our system so different in Illinois, in Chicago than border schools? I mean if a child does not live in their particular school district, tough! They must go to that school and unless it is a 'lottery' school, that is that!

[George W. Bush]

You know, there is an ex-INS (or maybe current INS) FReeper. He's been on some of these threads. I just can't recall his handle.

He has a lot of good info, the kind of stuff that only agency staff hears about.

[NewRomeTacitus]

I was reading in an article about State Interposition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1081540/posts that all it takes to make the Feds get out of a state's education business is for that state's governor to stand up and say so. While George Wallace was forever villified for standing in defiance in front of a school, what he was doing was totally within his rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Unfunded mandates and misapplied powers are also addressed in the article. We are not required to put up with this BS.

[lainde]

bttt

[ladylib]

I read a couple of articles where students in Texas spend half their time learning how to pass these tests.