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Civil Rights Groups to Obama: More Fed Edu Funding, No Standardized Tests for Minorities
Breitbart ^ | 4 Jan 2015 | Dr. Susan Berry

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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To: envisio
Are they admitting to being intellectually inferior?

That's kind of the thought I kept getting too.

41 posted on 01/05/2015 1:12:43 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I wonder if minority students includes students from Asia or American born students who parents, grand parents etc emigrated from Asia.

Somehow I don’t think the parents of Asian students will support the eliminating of testing.


42 posted on 01/05/2015 1:16:15 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: deadrock

and jet pilots and ship captains.


43 posted on 01/05/2015 1:17:40 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner
I wonder if minority students includes students from Asia or American born students who parents, grand parents etc emigrated from Asia. Somehow I don’t think the parents of Asian students will support the eliminating of testing.

Liberals say minority when they mean black. Conservatives do the same in order not to single out blacks as under-performers, on average. That would be raciss.

44 posted on 01/05/2015 1:25:24 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

if the government and the liberals strat treating minorities like every other student and do not assume that they are somehow less then the other students the minorities would be far better off


45 posted on 01/05/2015 1:29:32 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

I agree wholeheartedly


46 posted on 01/05/2015 1:35:17 PM PST by GeronL
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To: deadrock

Actually, they just want all their selfish desires and brute behaviors satisfied

at the expense of others
with no effort on their own part.


47 posted on 01/05/2015 1:36:12 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Zhang Fei; Maine Mariner

They’ve actually come up with a classification to handle that issue-

NAM - “non-asian minority”


48 posted on 01/05/2015 1:37:21 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

And they would trash everything in short order.


49 posted on 01/05/2015 1:58:32 PM PST by GunsareOK
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To: GunsareOK

This is entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYQKDqjCEBQ


50 posted on 01/05/2015 2:11:40 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Even if you gave them everything it wouldn’t matter. The people who have a work ethic would earn it all back in ten years.


51 posted on 01/05/2015 2:56:33 PM PST by jimbug
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To: Zhang Fei

It’s not as if the tests are in cursive.


52 posted on 01/05/2015 4:01:44 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Zhang Fei

Easiest fix: whom that uses the service(s)...PAYS for the service(s).

Then, start hiring those that WISH to teach. The pillars of the (biz) community: biz theory, finance, etc. There’s no need for the dregs of the teaching world, that could give 2-hoots about Susie/Johnny after their ‘long’ 5 hr. day, to be ‘certified’


53 posted on 01/05/2015 5:07:48 PM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Exactly.

Know what? I want my money back. I want my opportunities missed for these people back. I want MY share of the $13-14,000,000,000,000,000 spent on these people BACK.


54 posted on 01/05/2015 5:18:52 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: joshua c
What is it they trying to achieve again?

An absence of accountability. Once you eliminate the collection of data that indicate why their little darlings can't read the instructions on the boot heel showing how to pour the water out, you can blame anyone and anything for the problem.

55 posted on 01/05/2015 5:37:29 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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