Bad Report Card for Maryland Schools

[nhboy]

"A report from a Washington-based education research group said efforts to turn around Maryland's worst schools have made little progress.

The nonprofit Center on Education Policy found significant improvement at only 12 of the 76 schools that have been labeled as failing for at least five years. The report said hiring so-called turnaround specialists usually doesn't work and replacing the teaching staff hasn't made a difference, either. Maryland was chosen for the study because it had begun identifying failing schools even before passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act."

Bad Report Card for Maryland Schools|ABC 7 News

 

[bcp]

Thats becuase they are looking at the pysical school as the problem.

 

[ImnoMensa]

Everything's going to be allright folks. We just had our legislature meet in a Special session and pass more taxes, so we can throw more money at the problem. That will solve it for sure this time,.

What the hell did I do with that sarcasm tag?

Throwing money down the education toilet. You cant teach people who dont want to learn. The edcuation is there for any who want it. Those who dont are just wasting the time and talents of their teachers and dragging down their fellow students.

Stop spending money on Taj Mahal schools and classy offices for staff. The greatest impediment to learning is discipline , or the lack of it. Discipline includes behavior and a work ethic.

When a child habitually comes to school , misbehaves, habitually doesnt do home work, interrupts and is an all around pain in the butt, they need to find a new place to waste their time, and our money. Education should stop being a right and become a privilege, a privilege open to any who wish to learn. Get rid of the loads and you will see improvement on a scale you cannot imagine.

Whats the difference in putting a 14 year old out of school who cant read, and graduating an 18 year old who cant read. Just 4 years and a lot of trouble he/she caused while wasting those 4 years.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Everything's going to be allright folks. We just had our legislature meet in a Special session and pass more taxes, so we can throw more money at the problem. That will solve it for sure this time,.

What the hell did I do with that sarcasm tag?

Throwing money down the education toilet. You cant teach people who dont want to learn. The edcuation is there for any who want it. Those who dont are just wasting the time and talents of their teachers and dragging down their fellow students.

Stop spending money on Taj Mahal schools and classy offices for staff. The greatest impediment to learning is discipline , or the lack of it. Discipline includes behavior and a work ethic.

When a child habitually comes to school , misbehaves, habitually doesnt do home work, interrupts and is an all around pain in the butt, they need to find a new place to waste their time, and our money. Education should stop being a right and become a privilege, a privilege open to any who wish to learn. Get rid of the loads and you will see improvement on a scale you cannot imagine.

Whats the difference in putting a 14 year old out of school who cant read, and graduating an 18 year old who cant read. Just 4 years and a lot of trouble he/she caused while wasting those 4 years.

Maryland picks and chooses what parts of NCLB it wants to obey.

That's the problem. NCLB works if states follow it.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Bad Report Card for... 12-06-2007 01:44 PM You keep pretending you know what you're talking about. But you don't really. (I wonder if you have enough insight to realize that -- probably not

What part of the No Child Left Behind act did you read?

I've been against it for years. Then, I read it, researched it, analyzed it, and did a very extensive report on it for class.

I support the act, and the NCLB act works. It works if you follow EVERYTHING in the law.

Maryland isn't the worst, in fact they're better about NCLB than most states.

And it's those states that completely ignore the act that have the worst schools.

So, you're the one who doesn't know what they're talking about.

 

[Geek]

Bad Report Card for... 12-06-2007 01:44 PM You keep pretending you know what you're talking about. But you don't really. (I wonder if you have enough insight to realize that -- probably not

What part of the No Child Left Behind act did you read?

I've been against it for years. Then, I read it, researched it, analyzed it, and did a very extensive report on it for class.

I support the act, and the NCLB act works. It works if you follow EVERYTHING in the law.

Maryland isn't the worst, in fact they're better about NCLB than most states.

And it's those states that completely ignore the act that have the worst schools.

So, you're the one who doesn't know what they're talking about.

Do you know that when NCLB was drawn up they forgot to include special education? They had to go back and write it in. I wonder if any teachers at all were a part of making NCLB.

BTW teachers call it "No Tree Left Standing"

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Do you know that when NCLB was drawn up they forgot to include special education? They had to go back and write it in. I wonder if any teachers at all were a part of making NCLB.

BTW teachers call it "No Tree Left Standing"

Yet, overall, schools have IMPROVED since NCLB was signed into law.

 

[Fishn Guy]

"A report from a Washington-based education research group said efforts to turn around Maryland's worst schools have made little progress.

This may explain why so many of the people here make so little progress... just an observation though... Its not like I'd know, I didn't go to school there...

But, I guess I'll make a point soon too eh?

 

[Geek]

Yet, overall, schools have IMPROVED since NCLB was signed into law.

Whose to say that is NCLB's fault?