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15 schools in Utah face federal sanctions
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Fail for a couple of years.
Get the grant money.
Bring your scores back up.
This is the only way to get proper funding for our schools?
Ridiculous.
Rather than punitive measures and negative labels, these schools and students need help. They need extra resources, more one on one help and support services not needed in suburban schools. It is time to quit sanctioning these students, their teachers and their schools and start helping them. It is obvious from this article that the educators are willing to do what ever is needed, they just need the resources.
It is time to do way with the negative labels and punishments of NCLB once and for all.
Principals in Jordan and Granite Districts get paid 50 thousand more than the highest paid teacher whether their school performs well or not...
My father was an elementary school teacher for 30 years. I remember his frustration with fellow teachers who slept in class and who didn't really put their full effort into making sure the kids learned the material. They would do the "status quo" and be ok with that. It was all dependent on the personal philosophy of the teacher if anything good was to come out of the class, not on whether or not they would be fired if they didn't do their job properly like most of the private job sector.
Life is tough. Sometimes we have to face the music. It usually isn't fun nor does it do our "self-esteem" any good. But it does force us to step it up. I'm tired of the ultra-sensitive crowd who doesn't think discipline, criticism, or accountability is good for us. Getting your feelings hurt is worse than anything else imaginable. My grandfather once said that failure is the best remedy for success. Often failure is the motivation we need to do better. He was a smart man.
I taught at Midvale Elementary and let me tell you it was TOUGH! 86% turnover rate when I was there. I could immediately tell those children who had positive home support and consistency. I felt terrible for most of those kids, because I knew their chances at a good future were very slim.
The federal mandate to provide a free and fair education for all needs to be continued. We need to get resources where they need to be. But schools can only do so much for children. Without help from family and other near them these children will still fail most of the time. Agreed that we need big changes, but those changes need to start at home.
I hold a teaching certificate but have chosen a different career path, seeing that I can make a greater difference not in the classroom. I'm saddened by that, since I love to teach. Hopefully I can be an asset to society still.
Math scores above state average: 3% compared to 96%
Verbal scores above avgerage: 8% compared to 98%
The NCLB has done zero to improve the poor school.
The economic level of the two school districts is just as revealing. It is so bad that the state was considering closing the poor performing school and dispersing the students throughout the county.
The post by 'Help' at 10:16 was a perfect example of how shallow and off track the NCLB concept is.
Well... welcome to the world of Bushanguage.
You know, that weird mixing of Orwellian double-speak and saying something other than what was meant, like Bush's last week using of the word 'persecute' instead of the accurate word 'prosecute.'
In other words, 'No Child Left Behind' is a perfect example of convoluted Bushanguage.
When I got a bad grade is school, I worked smarter to get a good grade the next time. Momentary denials, yes, gripes, yes, but nobody gave me any pity, so I buckled down and worked. And pulled up my bad grade. More than once.
NCLB works most places, if you try to make it work. Denial gets you still stuck in last.
I know that almost all teachers hate no child. I know they are very vocal in how they hate doing the prep for the tests. I'm sure the kids know that this is the majority opinion of educators by the time they enter high school.
The way kids get into college is in a large part due to how they perform on a standardized test. Other things can help boost them being accepted into their school of choice. The first thing looked at is test scores.
In the world of work there are performance evaluations to judge how well a person is doing and what they can do to improve.
If you don't like the tests and you don't get paid enough and it's too stressful, please find another field.
As I have said before; Private schools can pick and choose -- if you don't fallow the rules they kick you out. Parents are paying tuition so they are invested and make sure the student is doing what they are suppose to. parent teacher conference last night I saw maybe 20 parents out of a possible 120. I have about 1/4 of my students have IEP's(learnig problems)I have to teach them all. Private schools limit enrollment = smaller classes. Give me those advantages and I could do just as well as private. But that take $. We felt it was more important to get a $20 rebate a couple of year ago instead of investing the millions of surplus money into education or save it for when we do not have enough---like now.
I am a teacher in Ohio and any student that has a disability is put on an IEP (individual Education Plan). As a teacher I must provide differentiated instruction for these students, but they do not count towards my student progress, because they are not required to take the standardized tests. So they do not effect my overall rating as a teacher. The school and district are rated on how well they help these students achieve their ability.
Having said that NCLB is a good idea that has been carried out very poorly.
If you look into the dates that most of the federal legislation was passed most of the foundation for NCLB was passed in 2000, under the Clinton administration.
Someone (USOE?) changed the rules in the middle of the game.
Basically, they took the more competent (fluent) ELL students and counted them elsewhere. The "non-ELL" population still shows progress even though a large group of lower-performing students must be figured in their percentages...somewhere.
This is like telling the school they need to finish a 10k run and after they are done you tell them they needed to run a marathon.
If you want real progress and accountability you must have consistent comparisons year to year. As a teacher, I have a difficult time using data that compares apples to oranges, much less apples to the entire fruit basket.
I would love to see the D-news do an investigative story on this angle of Annual Yearly Progress.
No Child Left Behind is an excellent way to hold schools accountable.
Without accountability, there is no way to improve public education in the U.S.
Vouchers are a joke because the economics of them just don't work out.
Private schooling is simply not an option for 99% of families.
The only way to improve public education is by enforcing NCLB.
Really? By holding the schools accountable for the kids who refuse to do anything but occupy a seat? Or blaming the schools because the kids won't even show up to occupy that seat? How is that fair. My school didn't make AYP one year for this reason: we had 4 American Indian kids enrolled, and 2 didn't bother to show up for the Proficiency Exam. No Child Left Behind is actually No Child Gets Ahead.
You want to make schools better? Tell the kids/parents that if they don't perform/behave, they can be kicked out. Huh, sounds like a private school.
Sure, blame Bush. It's all his fault! He's legislature/Judicial/Executive all rolled into one!
The No Child Left Behind bill came out of Teddy (HIC) Kennedy's office. The courts for years have sided with irresponsible kids/parents by refusing schools to kick out kids who are there just to cause problems. Blame Bush all you want, since he signed the stupid bill, but he isn't the only one who should share the blame.
I believe in being accountable for things that are actually within my control. I must do the best I can to help these kids, but many of the issues are out of my control. We are now getting a number of children whose parents were druggies when the kids were born. This short-circuits the brains of these kids, and they have little retention, even if they are extensively tutored in reading.
Maybe you should check your facts before you post bogus data.
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