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Educational News
Utah, Virginia, and Connecticut are thinking of withdrawing from NCLB under the premise of state's rights to refuse federal standards in lieu of self control, but are concerned with the ensuing lack of federal funding for education. All three states have different reasons for considering abandonment of the act. Very interesting.
And at Pedablogue, Mike Arnzen discusses the difficulties he has convincing college students to think beyond the safe five-paragraph essay styles that they learned in high school.
Posted by Lisa on February 03, 2004 at 08:57 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink
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Thanks for posting this link to Pedablogue. I still wrestle with the five-paragraph paper form. It's like any type of writing instruction: you want to emphasize form without letting it become formula.
"Write it" is a great blog, by the way. Nice work.
Posted by: Mike Arnzen | February 7, 2004 07:14 AM
I'm a little ashamed to say this...but I don't know too much about the political ramifications of the NCLB idea. I know very little about the federal standards that are being implimented and before reading the blog post listed above, I knew even less about what some states are willing to give up. Now, taking into consideration that I am not all that up-to-date on my information, I would like to pose the question: Logically, what sort of things are the states willing to give up? Wouldn't they be giving up on the education of some of their less fortunate students in order to save a little bit of money? The post said something about them giving up federal money...but wouldn't that just increase the division between the afluent schools and the poorer ones? How much power do our politicians really have?? Honestly, they are trying to deprive a vast majority of their students in the hopes that the federal government will just step aside. What happens to those schools that NEED the money the federal government gives them? What happens to the schools who can no longer pay the salaries that GOOD teachers are demanding? What happens to the helpless students in these cases? Can anyone truly say?
Posted by: Jennifer* | February 12, 2004 08:07 AM
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