Dec 112015
Once upon a midnight weary
Congress let their eyes get bleary
As they kept working though tired
To reauthorize important acts before they expired…
Here is an excellent analysis of one long past due (8 years) from Marian Wright Edelman:
The Education Inequality Struggle
http://cdf.childrensdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=45707&em_id=45008.0
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Cross posted to Care2 at:
http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3936635
I've never worked with CDF. Gene, I sympathize with your experience. I don't know anyone there personally, but I certainly do admire Marian Wright Edelman as an analyst and author. I also get her column every week, and generally read it immediately. What I can gather form real, scompetent educators certainly suggests that No Child Left Behind was a Bush administration disaster and they are relieved to get rid of it. Of course what we need to succeed in education is honest, dedicated human beings who are also excellent teachers, and I don't believe there is a way to measure that which is fair to all parties. I grant you "I know one when I see one," is a bit rough and ready.
I know little about American education programs. but from what little I've read here and on Care2 in the past about different states knowingly keeping poor and underprivileged children from getting even a basic education, the fact that it is the states that have to do most in making The Every Student Succeeds Act a success, fills me with dread. Marian Wright Edelman concludes her article with: "Those unable to read and compute and graduate from high school are being sentenced to social and economic death. They deserve better in the world’s biggest economy." So true, but I think most red states couldn't care less. Republicans haven't cared before, so why should they do so now?
Looks like a good step.
Historically foster children and foster parents' rights have not always been honored by education agencies hurting the children. The two systems had competing privacy rules and nothing to force communication much less data. This should at least get folks trying to make the two systems work together on behalf of the children, yet it will not happen overnight.