Comments on: echoes of the NCLB dispute reach the west coast http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-dispute-reach-the-west-coast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=echoes-of-the-nclb-dispute-reach-the-west-coast Harrisonburg's Community News Network Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hburgnews » high and dry http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-dispute-reach-the-west-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 hburgnews » high and dry Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:43:05 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-conflict-reach-the-west-coast/#comment-1155 [...] Since the school board’s plight has been in the AP and published all over the country this week (including CNN.com and FOX News.com), I decided to go to the school board meeting at Waterman last night. [...] [...] Since the school board’s plight has been in the AP and published all over the country this week (including CNN.com and FOX News.com), I decided to go to the school board meeting at Waterman last night. [...]

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]]> By: finnegan http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-dispute-reach-the-west-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-1147 finnegan Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:48:13 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-conflict-reach-the-west-coast/#comment-1147 <a href=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252949,00.html rel="nofollow">They Report. We decide!</a> Stephen, too bad the <a href=http://virginiasol.blogspot.com/ rel="nofollow">Virginia SOL/NCLB blog</a> is dead. You would have loved that one. They Report. We decide!

Stephen, too bad the Virginia SOL/NCLB blog is dead. You would have loved that one.

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]]> By: Stephen Winslow http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-dispute-reach-the-west-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-1138 Stephen Winslow Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:40:58 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-conflict-reach-the-west-coast/#comment-1138 Virginia should pull out of nclb. If the Spellings rhetoric is the best this administration can do then stick right up her snout! The loss of funds is a general wash because of the cost of trying to keep up with testing resources for tests that do nothing to go beyond the testing vasol's already cover. nclb has taken the student out of the center of the teaching process and placed a test there. nclb has removed the notion that the process of learning is as important, if not more important, then the final answer. The federal government has no constitutional right to be in the classroom. There was a reason the framers left the subject of education out of the constitution and it wasn't because they forgot to mention it. States should be in charge of the plight of education and if the federal government wants to be engaged then they can place the funding in the form of block grants and can keep those grants from states that fail to show progress. BTW, am I the only person that finds it contradictory to take away funds from failing schools districts that need more resources to succeed? Oh, you aren't spending enough on education so we are going to take more of it away.... One more thought...has anyone considered that the flagship for nclb is a failing broken down educational system found in Houston, Texas? Virginia should pull out of nclb. If the Spellings rhetoric is the best this administration can do then stick right up her snout!

The loss of funds is a general wash because of the cost of trying to keep up with testing resources for tests that do nothing to go beyond the testing vasol’s already cover.

nclb has taken the student out of the center of the teaching process and placed a test there. nclb has removed the notion that the process of learning is as important, if not more important, then the final answer.

The federal government has no constitutional right to be in the classroom. There was a reason the framers left the subject of education out of the constitution and it wasn’t because they forgot to mention it. States should be in charge of the plight of education and if the federal government wants to be engaged then they can place the funding in the form of block grants and can keep those grants from states that fail to show progress.

BTW, am I the only person that finds it contradictory to take away funds from failing schools districts that need more resources to succeed? Oh, you aren’t spending enough on education so we are going to take more of it away….

One more thought…has anyone considered that the flagship for nclb is a failing broken down educational system found in Houston, Texas?

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]]> By: finnegan http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-dispute-reach-the-west-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-1136 finnegan Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:19:49 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-conflict-reach-the-west-coast/#comment-1136 That's why I thought the Ed. Secretary's name was kinda funny. That’s why I thought the Ed. Secretary’s name was kinda funny.

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]]> By: Gxeremio http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-dispute-reach-the-west-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-1131 Gxeremio Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:03:30 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/2007/02/19/echoes-of-the-nclb-conflict-reach-the-west-coast/#comment-1131 Also on <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/19/english.learners.nclb.ap/index.html" rel="nofollow">CNN</a>. I guess it's kind of a safe risk. Either don't give the test, and maybe lose some money, or give the test, and definitely face sanctions because KIDS WHO DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH CAN'T PASS AN ENGLISH TEST. Also on CNN.
I guess it’s kind of a safe risk. Either don’t give the test, and maybe lose some money, or give the test, and definitely face sanctions because KIDS WHO DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH CAN’T PASS AN ENGLISH TEST.

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