tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post7349465199507488182..comments2023-05-05T06:38:34.592-04:00Comments on IMHO: Yet another Bush era failure...Niceguy Eddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03896896323840121445noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-50954851731380825192011-07-25T21:57:21.041-04:002011-07-25T21:57:21.041-04:00It was an all around TERRIBLE idea. Poorly conceiv...It was an all around TERRIBLE idea. Poorly conceived, poorly designed, doomed to failure, and yet, in a rather ironic example of politics making strange bedfellows, SUPPORTED by the late SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY; probably becuase he thought it might get some money to failing schools. Which means he's about as easy to manipulate / dupe as Obama. (OK, you know what? I don't really know WHAT he was thinking!) But then, I was never a fan of he, the least of the three siblings.<br /><br />Though... I still would have supported him in 1980 though, if he'd beaten Carter in the primary. Strange world we live in, huh? (Of course, I was only 7 at the time, so I liked Reagan. I've grown up since then.)Niceguy Eddiehttp://eddiecabot.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-2727695428728546662011-07-20T12:40:01.589-04:002011-07-20T12:40:01.589-04:00I tried to post a comment on a strange computer th...I tried to post a comment on a strange computer the other day, but Blog never recognized my password. This is also not my computer, but I got in. What can I tell you?<br /><br />On topic:<br />I was working on a Master's in Education when NCLB was being debated, and we discussed it at length, coming down squarely against it. Our reasoning was this:<br />1) No system of business-type metrics can accurately assess the educational progress of a child.<br />2)The imposition of test-driven metrics will damage children in a number of ways, principally by short-changing many subjects necessary for a well-rounded education and by narrowing teaching in the tested subjects down to a battle for institutional survival, with the children becoming metrics themselves. In other words, "teaching to the test" will become necessary for the survival of the school.<br />3) Institutions will do what they have to do to survive. Fudging of scores was predictable and, at least in my "cohort," predicted.<br /> In every case, the child will be the loser. We called it the "No Child Left Unscathed" Act.Conchobharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12615429492457158341noreply@blogger.com