LANSING - Nearly 900 Michigan schools didn't meet progress requirements and 112 must begin planning for a restructuring under a tough federal law mandating that schools improve standardized test scores.
More here.
From perusing the scores and the schools briefly, the vast majority of the failing schools are either in predominantly black and poor urban areas, or predominantly white and poor rural areas. Should we be shocked?
Hi Lester:
What is your proposed solution to this sad state of affairs? I wonder how much parental input, or lack of it, contributes to this poor showing and others like it.
If you find out that your kid can't read/write/do math at grade level, you do something about it, right? But you do something about it only if you're paying attention and/or if that is something that you care about.
Being the product of the much-maligned LAUSD and having had guardians that ensured that all areas of interest were up to snuff, I'm compelled to ask these questions.
Do the effected Michigan children have parents that are willing to take action in this matter?
Do these parents know that their children aren't getting the type of education that will make them reasonably literate citizens?
If so, do they care?
I know what parents who care about the education of their children look like and how such behave. How do these measure up?
Posted by: Juliette at January 31, 2004 09:47 PM
What was that BDP song? "You Must Learn". Scary coming from an intellect the size of GWB's, or KRS-1 for that matter. Whatever happened to block grants? Arnold is decentralizing control to the districts, how did this get to be a federal mandate anyway?
Posted by: Cobb at January 30, 2004 01:23 PM