{"id":5924,"date":"2011-09-24T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T07:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2011-09-24T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T07:02:03","slug":"obama-to-scrap-no-child-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/obama-to-scrap-no-child-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to scrap No Child Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Congress passed No Child Left Behind (NCLB), they looked to the phenomenal results the program had in Texas under Bush.  What they did not know is that Bush  achieved those results in Texas by pushing marginal children out of the school system.  Bush had only one successful initiative as President.  It was not NCLB.  It was No Millionaire Left Behind.  NCLB has been a dismal failure, forcing teachers to focus on how to test, not how to learn.  Attempts at reform have been blocked by Republicans have blocked real reform.  They are trying to establish a school voucher program to make Main Street Americans help finance high priced schools for the super-rich and dogmatic religious schools for Republican supply side pseudo-Christians, all to the detriment of the public school system.  So Obama says he\u2019s tired of waiting.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24nclb\"Criticizing Congress for months of inaction in updating No Child Left Behind, President Obama on Friday offered to lift the law\u2019s most onerous provisions<\/strong>, including its 2014 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency in reading and math, for states that promise to follow his administration\u2019s own school improvement agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress hasn\u2019t been able to do it, so I will<\/strong>,\u201d Mr. Obama said in a speech at the White House. \u201cStarting today, we\u2019ll be giving states more flexibility to meet high standards.\u201d <\/p>\n

Under the plan outlined by the White House, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is inviting states that agree to overhaul low-performing schools and adopt more rigorous teacher evaluation systems<\/strong> to apply for relief from the Bush-era law\u2019s 2014 deadline and other unpopular provisions. States that qualify for the waivers would be allowed to design their own school accountability systems. <\/p>\n

Mr. Duncan sent to state governments on Friday a 17-page guidance document<\/a> outlining 10 key provisions of the law that the administration is offering to waive for states that qualify. Besides the 2014 proficiency deadline, they also include requirements that schools declared failing must provide students with after-school tutoring and free bus transportation to better schools nearby. Administration officials said both those provisions of the law have been ineffective\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

I lack the expertise to comment on the efficacy of the requirements to obtain a waiver, so I\u2019ll leave that to professional teachers to explain in comments.<\/font><\/p>\n

When I was a child in school, I was taught how to learn and how to think.  These skills have served me all my life.  Today\u2019s trend, forcing teachers to teach what to learn and what to think, needs to be stopped now.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Congress passed No Child Left Behind (NCLB), they looked to the phenomenal results the program had in Texas under Bush.  What they did not know is that Bush  achieved those results in Texas by pushing marginal children out of the school system.  Bush had only one successful initiative as President.  It was not NCLB.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}