Posted on 09/10/2008 2:06:28 AM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Barack Obama laid out strategies to reform education in Dayton, Ohio, today. The National Education Association applauded the comprehensive plan. "Sen. Obama gets it," said Dennis Van Roekel, president of NEA. "He knows that reform cannot take place overnight or by using quick fixes. Obama wants to invest in comprehensive strategies, both immediate and long-term, which will pay dividends for our children, our economy and our country."
Obama's plan includes investing in innovation, integrating technology into coursework, increasing college access and affordability, recruiting, preparing and retaining qualified teachers, and doubling the funding for charter schools.
"Those of us in the education community can learn from charter school success stories and failures," said Van Roekel. "The key is to identify what is working that can be sustained and reproduced on a broad scale so that as many students as possible can benefit."
Van Roekel added he was glad to see that Obama's plan for charter schools included accountability, both academically and financially.
A result of the so-called No Child Left Behind law has been a narrowing of curriculum, with schools more focused on getting students to fill in a bubble on a test instead of expanding educational opportunities for those children. Obama's plan calls for developing better assessments and increasing the number of students taking advanced placement or college-level classes nationwide by 50 percent by 2016. He also stressed the need for parental and family involvement and responsibility. In July, NEA unveiled a plan to reshape the federal government's role in education. Educators are pleased to see that some of the ideas outlined by those in the classroom are being incorporated into Obama's education platform. For example, the Democratic presidential nominee wants to invest in research and development to further identify best practices and strategies to improve student achievement.
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Schools are failing worse -- give us more money
The solution: continually give more money.
Disclosure: my wife is a retired teacher...consequently, from observing her work I have some very strong opinions regarding the subject. Most of which consist of opposing the profession (and its institutional structure, including its unions), while really admiring a lot of individuals who are in that profession.
ah....more reform...that is code for “more money” for those loyal Rat teachers.....that’s all.....its not about education or the “children” at all...just money....
ALERT THE MEDIA! Next we’ll here the Union leaders are endorsing Obama.
Shocked, I tell ya’.
The NEA would applaud a drug dealer if he/she offered them more money.
The best school in Dayton is Chaminade...a Catholic school with very little money.
Do they know he supports vouchers and merit pay?
I home schooled my nephew, not because of the educational system, but because he was borderline ADD, and he did fantastically better at home with one-on-one attention.
Always, I hoped by doing that it freed up a teacher to be able to deal with a smaller class, and not have the distraction of an uncooperative or disruptive student.
For me, it isn’t teachers who are the problem, it is the belief that “one size fits all” really doesn’t work.
...Oh. We do already.
Well, then let's throw money at it.
he will once O’reilly asks him about it
NEA National and NAMBLA love Obama’s ‘Sex Ed for Kindergardeners’!
NEA comes out in support of Congress’s #1 Leftist!
Surprise!!!!
Has anyone else noticed that any bill with the word “comprehensive” in the title always turns out to be bad?
By their Friends ye shall know them.
Awww, and I was going to give Obama praise for his support of Charter Schools. But then I remembered when the Democrats took over the Charter schools, by seizure, in California — and how so many Democrats and Hermandad Nacional, used these Charter schools to launder money... Oh well. An almost there, praise...but for the memory.
- Traveler
Here in Oklahoma they teacher's union is doing a petition referendum to get on the ballot for November a measure that would amend our State Constitution to essentially say that the legislature has to fund education at a minimum the same as the regional average of states around us. Mind you we have 510 school districts in this state, each with administration, and of those 510 over 300 are with school that have 450 or less students. I pray this measure fails.
That’s it, give the NEA and our failing schools ever more money.
No standards, no accountability, just give education more money.
HOw about doing away with the U.S. Dept of Education?
And decertify the n.e.a., now that would certainly help education.
How about testing and firing BAD teachers?
Sen. Barack Obama laid out strategies to reform education in Dayton, Ohio, today. The National Education Association applauded the comprehensive plan
And there in lies the real problem.
IT IS NOT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES JOB TO EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN, NOR TO MAP OUT A PLAN TO DO SO. NOR IS IT A UNIONS JOB. The job of how our children are to be educated beloings to us, the parents. No where in our Constituton will you find the article granting authority for our children education to the Federal Government.
Once the decisons on education where taken away from the teachers and the parents becuase the union and the govermnet got involved, everything went to hell. It became about Money-Governmet Taxes and Power-the Union not about the Children- the Parents.
Obama's plan includes investing in innovation,
Invest in: code phrase for throw more money at it!
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