School Daze
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I heard from school teachers in Carlsbad that if you took L.A. unified out of the scoring CA schools would be one of the tops in the nation.
I was wondering if anyone sees a pattern. you have local leftists saying horray for the feds and democrats and common core...along with jeb bush types / leftists and yeah for the unions... and you destroyed education systems.
Then when you get to the suburbs... typically far more conservative you have very good schools and a natural dislike of federal govt interference... and almost a hatred for this common core crap.
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I was wondering if anyone sees a pattern. you have local leftists saying horray for the feds and democrats and common core...along with jeb bush types / leftists and yeah for the unions... and you destroyed education systems.
Then when you get to the suburbs... typically far more conservative you have very good schools and a natural dislike of federal govt interference... and almost a hatred for this common core crap.
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note I remember reading years ago... the bush family was tied to education companies...
it seems... this may be true...
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/05/15...se-the-truth-about-the-evil-education-system/
“Bush is a very powerful man. He still has a lot of control in the state of Florida. And Jeb Bush has a foundation – the Foundation for Excellence in Education,” she said. “And that foundation is heavily tied with Pearson, which is a test making company. It’s also a publisher. So Pearson publishes the books, they build the curriculum. They write the tests. They score the tests. And they store the data.”
As Jasper explained, these tests actually have a 30% fail rate built into them, and Pearson earns between $15 and $30 for each test administered. The more children who fail and must retake the exam, the more money Pearson makes.
it seems... this may be true...
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/05/15...se-the-truth-about-the-evil-education-system/
“Bush is a very powerful man. He still has a lot of control in the state of Florida. And Jeb Bush has a foundation – the Foundation for Excellence in Education,” she said. “And that foundation is heavily tied with Pearson, which is a test making company. It’s also a publisher. So Pearson publishes the books, they build the curriculum. They write the tests. They score the tests. And they store the data.”
As Jasper explained, these tests actually have a 30% fail rate built into them, and Pearson earns between $15 and $30 for each test administered. The more children who fail and must retake the exam, the more money Pearson makes.
I have, but they never control for race, sex, and income level. Therefore, the results are meaningless. Instead one gets the "if only they left out the high-poverty schools, the results would be spectacular", but that's not the way reality works.
John Stossel? Really?
Yes, really. Feel free to argue any of the points he brings up. Stossel is a helluva lot more credible than Salon or HuffPuff
Exactly! Really
lol . . . you posted the first part, dumbass.
Actually the reports from the North Carolina State Board of Education includes detailed results for the 148 Charter Schools in our state including information by race, sex, and income level. The high poverty charter schools in North Carolina are the ones that actually have the greatest performance leaps when compared the public schools with the same demographics.
Top level state website
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charterschools/
School performance results search
http://www.ncreportcards.org/src/main.jsp?pList=4&pYear=2012-2013
I will note that by federal law every state with charter schools must make information available about performance by race, gender, and F&RL applicability (income level). Every state publishes similar results. Trying to state that this information is not available and that performance claims for charters are somehow misleading is simply absurd.