Post a New ReplyShow Printable VersionSubscribe to this Thread Search This Thread Advanced Search   Email address Please enter your email address. ERN Discussion Forum Search  |  New Posts  |  Chat Educational Research Newsletter > Forums > Eight lessons from NCLB > Eight recommendations?   Thread Tools  | Search This Thread  Reply   Author Comment   Editor      12/06/07 at 12:52 AM Reply with quote #1 What do you think of these recommendations? What would you add? Delete? Helen Jackson      12/06/07 at 10:14 AM Reply with quote #2 I agree with most of the article. However I think more studies are needed that have more teacher input. after school tutoring is a great idea. Most students get NO help at home due to working ,or absent parents. IT does not have to be their teacher. Materials and right environment a BIG plus! Doug Conboy      12/07/07 at 10:09 AM Reply with quote #3 The Constitution of the United States does not contain a single word about education. This makes education a States issue not a federal one. When the federal government got involved in the first place, things started to go south. NCLB has speeded the demise of public education, nationwide. Any one who advocates for more federal control is actually in dispute with the U.S. Constitution are we OK with that? This poorly crafted and evilly intended law must be stricken, not ammended or added to. Brien McCarthy      12/21/07 at 12:55 AM Reply with quote #4 I just read Eight Lessons from NCLB. Great article. I have been in public education for 19 years and have come to the conclusion that we must go beyond adjusting federal guidelines for education and we must eliminate the Federal Governments role in education altogether. The Federal government has no constitutional footing for directing what happens in education. Your article highlights the inability of the problems that Federal legistlation creates. What can be done to get the Federal government out of the \education business completely? Do you know of other people who believe it would be good to do so? What do you think? Do you think the the Federal Government Department of Education should be abolished? Why or why not? I look forward to your response. Laura Hernandez      05/17/08 at 10:57 AM Reply with quote #5 I did not agree with one concept presented in the article and that was of the remaining job security of all teachers and principals of failing schools.  Both teachers and principals have been either transferred or let go in several schools around the country due to low performance.  Florida, North Carolina and Texas actually use merit pay as an incentive for schools that meet these benchmarks.  Therefore, providing less incentive for teachers or administrators to want to work in low performance schools which are continuously punished financially.  Competitiveness amongst teachers has greatly increased and that just exasperates the problems of isolation that a teacher often encounters.  That component of education is often overlooked and one that needs to be addressed if teachers are to improve as an overall profession. Also, I don't believe that NCLB gives adequate direction for teachers on how to improve these scores.  Without the proper feedback on how to achieve these new standards, we are not doing anything but increasing the stress level in a place that should be nurturing and united. They then ask school districts to figure out how to solve these problems without the proper guidelines or any real direction just more goals to meet and threats of cutting funding if they are not met. Laura Hernandez      05/17/08 at 11:08 AM Reply with quote #6 The only problem with eliminating the federal government in education is that there already are too many discrepancies between the educational system between states, districts and schools.  Just because I live in rural Idaho, I should have my child's education be at par with that of a child in suburban New York.  The Federal government's role has been slanted.  It has only given us expectations without a map of getting there with the excuse of throwing the solution back at the local government with funding cuts never mind additional funding to improve the situation with the new information districts have now received.  Previous Thread | Next Thread Reply   Bookmarks    Digg  del.icio.us  StumbleUpon  Google