Strong critique of ESSA's weaknesses. The tutoring point is interesting because even tho NCLB's programs were misalinged with classroom instruction, cutting them entirely seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Fixing delivery quality would've been better than eliminating student access altogther, especially when 165k kids were using it.
A bad education law turns 10! The whole series of laws that began with Tarence Bell's abomination called "A Nation At Risk." It was a biased and fatally flawed report that generated a false premise that the federal government could improve education by acting like a slave master: produce more cotton, or I'll peel the skin off your back. When other countries were making vast improvements in their education systems with highly educated teachers who were given the autonomy and resources to meet high expectations, the US was threatening and degrading teachers, cutting budgets, and telling teachers how to teach. The testing regime was not intended to improve learning but to please legislators and create an illusion of monitoring school effectiveness. There was no immediate feedback to teachers on student learning. In fact, every competent teacher knows exactly how each of their students is learning without a billion-dollar test regime. The corporate-education syndicate determined student achievement, not the teachers and the school districts. Granted, some states had very underfunded public schools as persistent racism tried to maintain a status quo from segregation. The standards were created with an agenda to be like Japan and were deeply flawed because teachers and child development experts were shut out of the decision-making process. In the book Flight of the Buffaloes by James A. Belasco & Ralph C. Stayer, it is shown that ignoring those who make the sausage leads to stagnation.
Now I'm feeling nostalgic. Might have to dig out my prized NCLB safe harbor flow chart from the attic and have a good cry.
Strong critique of ESSA's weaknesses. The tutoring point is interesting because even tho NCLB's programs were misalinged with classroom instruction, cutting them entirely seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Fixing delivery quality would've been better than eliminating student access altogther, especially when 165k kids were using it.
A bad education law turns 10! The whole series of laws that began with Tarence Bell's abomination called "A Nation At Risk." It was a biased and fatally flawed report that generated a false premise that the federal government could improve education by acting like a slave master: produce more cotton, or I'll peel the skin off your back. When other countries were making vast improvements in their education systems with highly educated teachers who were given the autonomy and resources to meet high expectations, the US was threatening and degrading teachers, cutting budgets, and telling teachers how to teach. The testing regime was not intended to improve learning but to please legislators and create an illusion of monitoring school effectiveness. There was no immediate feedback to teachers on student learning. In fact, every competent teacher knows exactly how each of their students is learning without a billion-dollar test regime. The corporate-education syndicate determined student achievement, not the teachers and the school districts. Granted, some states had very underfunded public schools as persistent racism tried to maintain a status quo from segregation. The standards were created with an agenda to be like Japan and were deeply flawed because teachers and child development experts were shut out of the decision-making process. In the book Flight of the Buffaloes by James A. Belasco & Ralph C. Stayer, it is shown that ignoring those who make the sausage leads to stagnation.