School reform looking for federal funds
By Esther Zuckerman
Staff Reporter
The Yale Daily News
Published Friday, January 29, 2010
Federal eduction spending could rise 6 percent in 2011, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced Wednesday, and that’s good news for New Haven’s eduction reform plans.Though national spending overall will be frozen, Duncan said if the proposed 2011 White House budget passes, federal funds for education will increase — a move that comes as New Haven kicks its education reform efforts into high gear. Just last week, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. discussed two major federal grants the city may qualify for, Investing in Innovation and Race to the Top, at a meeting about education...
#1 By Goose-stepping to ETS's National Curriculum 5:15a.m. on January 29, 2010
Let's not kid ourselves. It's the money, stupid!
If it helps the kids, that will be an accidental bonus.
If it doesn't, the kids will be yet again guinea pigs in adults' fantasy that there is a recipe for creating educated human beings.
All we have to do is follow the recipe---in this case add benchmarks and rubrics, stir, bake in a 4T school (Teach To The Test) for twelve years and voila: educated human beings emerge, goose-stepping their way to college where they can genuflect once again at the altar of the ETS (Educational Testing Service) for four, six, even eight more years.
This isn't a Race to the Top it is Goose-Stepping to the Top. The real agenda is hidden: A NATIONAL CURRICULUM.
Heil Duncan!
Humbug! Tommyrot! Balderdash! Baloney!(Bologna!)
PKM.Div.'80http://theantiyale.blogspot.com
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