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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That's kind of the thought I kept getting too.
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.
and jet pilots and ship captains.
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.
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
I agree wholeheartedly
Actually, they just want all their selfish desires and brute behaviors satisfied
at the expense of others
with no effort on their own part.
They’ve actually come up with a classification to handle that issue-
NAM - “non-asian minority”
And they would trash everything in short order.
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.
It’s not as if the tests are in cursive.
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’
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.
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.
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