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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (80920)	3/14/2010 10:53:52 AM
From: MJ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 224729

From the Washington Post this is a real statement from the most liberal news source in the past 50 years! The writers obviously understand the failure of Obama, Pelosi and their Congress. Here is one of the next ones as described by NYT---------that even if it passes is a step in the wrong direction. The wrong direction is once again the Federal Government under Obama attempting to control what they can't unless they put a CZAR in every State and every community-----even then they will fail. The fact is that we have been on the wrong track in education since the late 1960's. More on that later--- mj ******************************************************* From the New York Times: "The administration would replace the law’s pass-fail school grading system with one that would measure individual students’ academic growth and judge schools based not on test scores alone but also on indicators like pupil attendance, graduation rates and learning climate. And while the proposal calls for more vigorous interventions in failing schools, it would also reward top performers and lessen federal interference in tens of thousands of reasonably well-run schools in the middle. In addition, President Obama would replace the law’s requirement that every American child reach proficiency in reading and math, which administration officials have called utopian, with a new national target that could prove equally elusive: that all students should graduate from high school prepared for college and a career. “Under these guidelines, schools that achieve excellence or show real progress will be rewarded,” the president said in his weekly radio address, “and local districts will be encouraged to commit to change in schools that are clearly letting their students down.” Administration officials said their plan would urge the states to achieve the college-ready goal by 2020. The No Child law, passed in 2001 by bipartisan majorities, focused the nation’s attention on closing achievement gaps between minorities and whites, but it included many provisions that created what Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Friday called “perverse incentives.” "