By: PhillipMarlowe
Eleven years ago I was a legislative assistant to a US Congressman, and K-12 was in my portfolio. NCLB was making its way through the House, and the congressman was leaning against. I took it upon...
View ArticleBy: Linda/RetiredTeacher
“We’ll never solve education until we solve poverty.” How did that one ever get started? I’ve never in my life heard anyone say that except on these blogs. People are not stupid and they know “the poor...
View ArticleBy: Karl Wheatley
I agree with you that the argument about the proper role of the federal gov’t in education is an important and enduring one, but aside from that, there were two intellectual flaws that doomed NCLB from...
View ArticleBy: jeffreymiller
You seem to be about half way there, Andy. Linda and Karl lay pretty effectively the deep flaws in our societal approach to the essential issues of educational policy. NCLB, RttT, and the rest are...
View ArticleBy: Attorney DC
Linda: Good points, as usual. I agree with you that the effects of poverty (and, more broadly, of family/culture) have a tremendous impact on educational achievement.
View ArticleBy: PhillipMarlowe
Jeffrey, With regards to my comment a few weeks ago about the failure of the Great Society anti-poverty programs, I refer more to the failure of them to be defended and maintained. Poverty has risen in...
View ArticleBy: Attorney DC
Karl makes a very good point: “Conflating student outcomes with quality of schooling, without controlling for all the intervening variables is about as good a recipe for an expensive educational policy...
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