The ICON of Obama and America's futile future ...RIGHT HERE
When the objective measure of success shows failure, let’s abandon the objective measure and call it success since everyone is trying.
It’s an unbelieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevable story for our times, and a real time waveform of american decline under the ‘criteria’ of equal outcome.
A perfect story for the day of American downgrade and the stock market plunge to below 11,000 at 3:10 Eastern.
Obama Administration Exempting Schools From Federal Law’s Testing MandateMonday, August 08, 2011
State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn’t answered the call.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a break.
The plan to offer waivers to all 50 states, as long as they meet other school reform requirements, comes at the request of President Barack Obama, Duncan said. More details on the waivers will come in September, he said.
The goal of the No Child Left Behind law is to have every student proficient in math and reading by 2014. States have been required to bring more students up to the math and reading standards each year, based on tests that usually take place each spring. The step-by-step ramping up of the 9-year-old law has caused heartburn in states and most school districts, because more and more schools are labeled as failures as too few of their students meet testing goals.
The standards are too hard. The struggle is too much. The work takes too long. The math is boring. The reading is incomprehensible. The questions are making everyone dizzy and upset.
I got your new aeronautical engineers, electrical engineers, weathermen, pilots, nurses and doctors RIGHT HERE
And we will wonder why things aren’t the way they used to be.
TODAY WILL BE THE GOOD OLD DAYS. A 500 point drop in the DOW will be remembered fondly.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!
- Ed. Secretary: States to get school test waivers (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Duncan: States Will Get School Testing Waivers (huffingtonpost.com)
- Ed. Secretary: States to get school test waivers (ajc.com)
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