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By diana Kenney February 21, 2008 -- 08:35 AM
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I'm almost in tears. I too see this in our schools. Well intentioned teachers that are disconnected to how our children learn in the "information age."
NCLB has made a disaster of public education.
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By jsteph February 21, 2008 -- 09:21 AM
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The education President, like out education Governor here in California, is so out of touch with education and public schools. At the highest level, education is run by politicians, not educators. The focus is on money ( cutting ) and data ( meaningless ).
We have allowed this state's and nation's educational system to fester and sink into a segregated morass of bureaucracy and fiscal gerrymandering. We have squandered the future of the next generation by doing nothing to correct the educational problems the collective we have created. California, the 6th largest economy in the world, has gone from being to being # 1 in education to being # 46 in the United States. At the same time the United States has gone from being # 1 in education to being # 24 of the 30 top industrialized nations. Educationally we are in the bottom half of the bottom half and we are creating isolated islands of educational elitists in wealthy communities.
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