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Today's reports indicate half of US students are failing to meet the minimum standards for learning.
According to the report:
–About half (48 percent) of the nation’s schools did not make AYP in 2011. This marked an increase from 39 percent in 2010, and is the highest percentage since NCLB took effect.
–In almost half the states, 50 percent or more of the public schools did not make AYP; in five states and D.C., at least three quarters of schools failed to make AYP.
–The percentage of public schools not making AYP in 2011 varied greatly by state, from about 11 percent in Wisconsin to about 89 percent in Florida. (In Georgia, 27 percent of schools did not meet targets.)
How has the politics of education failed Ashanta's generation? Ie Ashanta's low expectations result of educational conditions, or is it something else?
ETA: Per Rule 8, I must elaborate on my opinion regarding my question. I believe the education system failed at integration back in the 60's. That, more than Roe v Wade, caused the GOP South to rise and reclaim political power. Not the concept, more the way it was applied ham handed. When the federals imposed mandatory court ordered integration of schools, the response from the white community was predictable; they fled the cities for the 'relative safety' of majority white neighborhoods. Cities in the South and elsewhere became chocolate filled glazed doughnuts (black in the interior and white in the outer rings). In the South, putting together inner city majorities of Latino (primarily Mexican in the South and PR in the North) and blacks fomented gangs, violence, drugs (hey it was the 60's!) and a generally uncool environment, which lead to more apathy from teachers, white flight, and the tax base that supported education eroded. Politics kicked in and some genius came up with
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Date: 15/12/11 19:11 (UTC)As for Ashanta's low expectations, I'm going with she's still pretty young and it would be fucking awesome to hang out with mom all day, regardless of where mom worked.
Some lessons from the best education system in the world
Date: 15/12/11 23:19 (UTC)http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html
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Date: 16/12/11 03:02 (UTC)"Whether it's 50%, 80% or 100% being incorrectly labeled as failing, one thing is clear: No Child Left Behind is broken," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement. "That's why we're moving forward with giving states flexibility from the law"
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Date: 15/12/11 19:21 (UTC)I don't know her conditions, so I'm leaning towards "something else" because that might include the reasons behind said conditions and thereby win me the whole silverware drawer.*
No Child Left Behind (where 100% were supposed to be able to hit standards) appears to have been ground-tested as completely unrealistic. But I don't know what the failures even mean... if I take a straight-A kid from Massachusetts and put him in Kansas, will he suddenly start failing because the tests are more stringent? Or will he just test out of that grade because the material is different?
I agree something is very wrong but there's not enough context.
Also at one age in my life I wanted to work at McDonalds when I grew up because I thought french fries were pretty, so Ashanta may yet grow up to be a CEO. She certainly thinks outside the box when it comes to mixing patterns.
*AND a toaster oven!
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Date: 15/12/11 19:46 (UTC)Mellow Greetings, Citizen
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Date: 15/12/11 21:06 (UTC)How has the politics of education failed Ashanta's generation?
About the point where someone made a list of international education rankings and then shit their pants because we're not number one by some contrived standards, so now we're gaming the system with "standards" so we can be number one on some bullshit list that means absolutely nothing.
Ie Ashanta's low expectations result of educational conditions, or is it something else?
Oh dear Lord! This is who she is... FOREVER!
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Date: 15/12/11 22:17 (UTC)There's something wrong with a society where food servers are treated as disposable and underpaid.
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Date: 16/12/11 05:05 (UTC)It is actually possible to write a multiple choice test that measures your knowledge of a subject rather than your ability to fill out bubbles.
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