Posted on 12/15/2008 9:28:37 PM PST by conservativefromGa
resident-elect Barack Obama will name Arne Duncan, the superintendent of schools in Chicago, to be his Secretary of Education, a senior Democratic official and a second person close to the decision said.
Mr. Duncan is a Harvard graduate whose friendship with Mr. Obama began on the basketball court and flowered into frequent discussions of education policy.
He has seven years’ experience as chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school district, where he has earned a solid reputation for confronting pressing issues in public education, like how to raise teacher quality, how to transform weak schools and when to shutter those that are irredeemably failing.
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That's JUST NOT FAIR!!..lol
Why should someone be paid more just because that person is getting A's??? We need to 'spread the wealth around' a little more equitably. /s
So many Chicagoans... so little time to Photoshop them in! That will have to be my evening project.
My former fiancee went through that Stalinist Sausage Factory known as the Chicago public schools, and even though her parents were of very modest means, they got her out of that mess and sent her to a parochial high school even though they could scarcely afford it.
See, this unique systems WORKS!!
Real world business applications like that (not to mention math word problems) can only help to greatly increase their math skills--
to a level high enough to calculate their unemployment checks and welfare payments--and wisely invest the proceeds...lol
The A students make enough to go to Harvard and donate to the Democrats and get appointed Secretary of Education.
My former fiancee went through that Stalinist Sausage Factory known as the Chicago public schools...
Wow, well put. Outside of the Magnet schools, the Chicago schools are not known for d oing very welll on statewide school report cards...
These reports are usually published in Chicago papers annually—well I guess I should make that PapeR (Chicago SunTimes) as Trib probably won’t survive recession.
I had a Chemistry prof in college who told us the story of how he had once allowed students to bring a single 3X5 card "cheat sheet" into an exam. He said he was amazed at the effort and ingenuity that went into the production of these, such as writing in red and green in perpendicular directions. He noted that if they had spent half that much effort in learning the material, they would have been better off.
Similarly, I can well imagine that the student's desire for the monetary reward will find other channels of expression than studying. I would imagine all sorts of pressure applied individually and en masse for the granting of higher grades, along with the concommitant diversion of attention, effort, and energy from actual studying.
Oh pardon me while I lift my left cheek off the chair and expel ... Arnnnne Dunnnncan ... ah - feel much better now.
Yeah, babydaddies will be visiting their kids twice a year now.
Being a Harvard graduate has become the equivalent of being a Nobel or Pulitzer Prize winner. Its value is zero! They are only Leftist credentials.
I guess the chief executive of the first, second or third BEST public school system didn't want the job.
And as the Chicago Tribune reported on Oct. 5, 2008, Chicago’s test scores fell for the third year in a row.
“You forgot Bill Ayers”
We have a winner!
yes..he has CLEARLY been working with..and influenced by...Terrorist Bill “I dont regret setting bombs” aryes and his new Race baiting retoric.
i do wonder how much control he has over his cabinet. An alarming number of cabinet appointees or major staff positions are either chicago/IL folks or national democratic politicians.
I agree with the idea but only for A’s and B’s. And what is considered an A and on what tests? They can’t be special dumbed down tests just for these kids.
“Similarly, I can well imagine that the student’s desire for the monetary reward will find other channels of expression than studying.”
You mean they are actually studying today???
By that logic, employers shouldn’t pay people for working because they’ll probably cheat, anyway. Everyone will just voluntarily work for no pay because they’ll just want to “do the right thing” for society.
Welcome to the United State of Chicago.
Well, look at private schools, or colleges. Parents and students, often via loans, pay for the privilege of this instruction. Should the parent pay the child for submitting to the instruction purchased at great expense? Or should the student pay himself for attending college?
If school is so onerous a duty that it requires compensation, why not just dispense with it? Let the children break coal, and be useful.
Kids go to school because their parents make them go. College students want a degree for the sake of a degree. Very few will take tougher classes or try to get better grades in math and science unless they are paid to do so.
We’ll just end up with a lot of unemployed sociology majors while the asians end up with all the real jobs.
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