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mentaires.info GLORY: Number of U.S. Schools NOT Failing May Rise to 18%
by Marisa Vanderbeek, DP Education Correspondent
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
WASHINGTON —The number of schools deemed “not failing” under the nation’s No Child Left Behind Act could rise greatly this year, to a whopping 18%, said U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Wednesday.
The stunningly glorious news again focuses attention on the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA), as schools across the country continue to gleefully adapt to the one-size-fits-all standards championed by then-President and walking epitome of small government, George W. Bush.
"No Child Left Behind is working amazingly and we need to never abandon it," Duncan said in a statement. "This law has created a thousand ways for schools to succeed and very few ways to help them (fail)… An 18% non-failure rate is more than we could dream."
Duncan displayed the figures at a House education and work force committee hearing Wednesday, urging lawmakers never to repeal the Bush-era act that has worked so remarkably, as all federally standardizing acts do.
Duncan said the law has done well in shining a light on achievement gaps among minority and low-income students, which no one expect the Department of Education has the ability or responsibility to fix. “Make no mistake,” said Duncan to the committee, “unless we repeal No Child Left Behind, America’s schools may never reach that historic 18% passing rate they’ve always strived for.”
“America should remain out of letting local or state school districts improve students’ scores,” continued Secretary Duncan. “Either we can remain on our current path to success that No Child has forged, or adopt even more federal guidelines that will be even more loved and triumphant.”
CATO Institute education expert Arthur Guttenberg said that while 18% non-failure rate for school is indeed laudable, there should still be no reason not to go full-throttle and aim for 18.5% by 2014.
“After ten years of this ingenious program, its benefits are undeniable,” said Guttenberg to Duh Progressive Thursday. “A school with fifty kids in the ass-crack of Alaska has had to live up to the same standards as a school with thousands in Chicago. There’ve been vague goals set for achievement and little input on the methods for obtaining them. And schools that have failed to meet federal guidelines are summarily punished with reduced funding, with little review of how to tweak their teaching methods beforehand…Now that’s how you govern!”
Added Guttenberg, “To think there are critics who claim the No Child Act has been a massive overreach of government that has created ten-times the amount of problems that it has solved. I laugh at that notion –since when has a massive, uniformed federal program done such a thing?”
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