Posted on 01/05/2015 12:25:13 PM PST by Zhang Fei
The civil rights groups say they believe accountability “at the local, state, and federal levels are central to advancing and broadening equal educational opportunity for each and every child in America.”
“From early education to the post-secondary years, we believe that the federal government continues to play a critical role in helping states, districts, and tribes to achieve educational excellence through equity,” the groups write.
They assert, however, their concerns “about overly punitive accountability systems:”
In particular, the No Child Left Behind law has not accomplished its intended goals of substantially expanding educational equity or significantly improving educational outcomes. Racial achievement and opportunity gaps remain large, and many struggling school systems have made little progress under rules that emphasize testing without investing. [3] We must shift towards accountability strategies that promote equity and strengthen, rather than weaken, schools in our communities, so that they can better serve students and accelerate student success.
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Fixed it!
Good thing I got my education back when Democrats were dirt cheap.
There’s precious little point in dumping more zillions of
Dineros at “education” if the teachers in the classroom arent even allowed to find out their students’ learning needs. Just forget about it then
Dang, now I have to go and actually read it.
Thanks. : )
Are they admitting to being intellectually inferior?
That’s pretty much the gist of it, is it not?
For some reason, they’re saying that minorities are incapable of achieving according to the non-minority’s standards...
This is how you end up with high school graduates that can't read or write.
Educated people are much harder to control than those who are not, which is why democratic social engineers hate home schooling, school vouchers, private schools, or any other effective measure to educate our youth.
True, but since the quotes from the letter are drivel I figure the headline is about as accurate as any other headline would be.
I thought an equal educational opportunity is what we got when we integrated schools in 1674. (My school wasn’t integrated until 1968 so they’re four years behind their peeps.)
OK. I went and read it.
My opinion of all the gobblety-gook I read was that the ‘minorities’ want the same amount of money that well performing schools get, regardless to performance.
They then go on to say they want MORE money than well performing schools get.
Included are requests for more ‘diverse’ staff, access to the assets of the well performing schools, and lots of ‘cultural sensitivity’ (like more of those ‘african studies/feminist studies’ classes which the teachers don’t actually teach and the students don’t actually attend).
They know they’re not capable of passing. Not racist if it’s fact.
Give the ritziest part of town to them and it will be a slum within a year.
The word “tribe” being the key word.
NAH, just give everyone A grades for everything. Simplifies the system.
In other words, “We need to spend more and tax more for the good of the children.”
I am in the same camp as you. If I wanted pretty much anything, I found some way to pay for it. Even a tenth that is given to a minority to me would have been a windfall.
It was done in Zimbabwe. See how well that worked out.
Tests do nothing more than prove the intelligence diparity between children of differing backgrounds. And that’s not fair. Only smart students should have to take the tests.
What do I win? Was there a right answer? Wait,... what was the question?
I'm confused.
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