Comments on: The Rent Comes Due on NCLB http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/10/13/the-rent-comes-due-on-nclb/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Brian Rude http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/10/13/the-rent-comes-due-on-nclb/#comment-4651 Brian Rude Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:10:42 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1185#comment-4651 Whatever happened to Goals 2000? Could that give some guidance here? Whatever happened to Goals 2000? Could that give some guidance here?

]]> By: Crimson Wife http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/10/13/the-rent-comes-due-on-nclb/#comment-4650 Crimson Wife Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:30:38 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1185#comment-4650 I question how the NYT can claim that a school where 3/5 of its students are below grade-level proficiency can be legitimately termed "solid". Granted, they've improved from the horrendously low level they started at, but they've still got quite a long way to go before they can reasonably be seen as a "solid" school. I question how the NYT can claim that a school where 3/5 of its students are below grade-level proficiency can be legitimately termed “solid”. Granted, they’ve improved from the horrendously low level they started at, but they’ve still got quite a long way to go before they can reasonably be seen as a “solid” school.

]]> By: john thompson http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/10/13/the-rent-comes-due-on-nclb/#comment-4649 john thompson Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:01:50 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1185#comment-4649 There is no secret why states adopted the balloon payment. Ohio was going to be important in the 2004 election, so they got a sweet deal and everyone copied it. But accountability hawks shouldn't be "shocked! shocked!" Had states not adopted the balloon system, their schools would have been failing earlier. We knew in 2002 that schools were being asked to do the impossible, and that's why districts resorted to so many tricks and destructive CYA policies. What I heard from the top political leaders was that we had to hold out until the Republican governors in the West talked some sense to Bush. Back then, though, we still thought we were dealing with the "compassionate conservative" who had compromised in Texas. There is no secret why states adopted the balloon payment. Ohio was going to be important in the 2004 election, so they got a sweet deal and everyone copied it.

But accountability hawks shouldn’t be “shocked! shocked!” Had states not adopted the balloon system, their schools would have been failing earlier.

We knew in 2002 that schools were being asked to do the impossible, and that’s why districts resorted to so many tricks and destructive CYA policies. What I heard from the top political leaders was that we had to hold out until the Republican governors in the West talked some sense to Bush. Back then, though, we still thought we were dealing with the “compassionate conservative” who had compromised in Texas.

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