Bush Says New Scores Show Education Reforms Work

[sabra]

http://www.news10.net/storyfull3.aspx?storyid=13753

Bush Says New Scores Show Education Reforms Work

WHITE HOUSE (AP) -- President Bush says the latest test results for America's fourth- and eighth-graders show his education overhaul plan is working.

However, he acknowledges the scores also show there's "more work to do" when it comes to reading.

This year's National Assessment of Educational Progress shows a four-percentage-point gain over last year in fourth-grade math scores and a one-point gain in eighth.

However, there was essentially no progress in fourth-grade reading while in eighth grade, the percentage reading at grade level actually dropped.

[Ian David]

1. Bush has an intent to seek education improvement related programs. n/t

[rodeodance]

5. bush and his pal Spellings know little about schooling.

[SoCalDem]

15. Is that anything like the "programs to create WMDs"?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. What plan? Prepare kids to take/pass a test?

Like everything else these bush people do, it's all bogus.

[foflappy]

3. I guess they need to "teach to the test"

more effectively!!

I am glad we bailed out of that system...I am glad we could!

[Frustratedlady]

8. Unfortunately,

they have temporarily derailed the system and it will take years to get back to normal. What he should have done was give each of the students a crib...I'm sure he knows what that is...and that would immediately bring those scores up so he could gloat. Jerk!

[rodeodance]

4. 'essentially no progress" for 4th gr. and 8th grade Reading scores dropped

This year's National Assessment of Educational Progress shows a four-percentage-point gain over last year in fourth-grade math scores and a one-point gain in eighth.

However, there was essentially no progress in fourth-grade reading while in eighth grade, the percentage reading at grade level actually dropped.

[goclark]

7. That I believe!

They are leaving Education Behind.
The plan has got to go.

Children are no plants, they should not be totally concerned with the Bush tests.

If Bush is an example of a beautiful education,forget it.

[LynnTheDem]

6. OH LOOK! There he goes again!

LIE LIE LIE.

Or is he just "out of the loop"?

[qanda]

9. That is terrible

The scores go down and he calls that a success. Just terrible!

[wordpix]

16. the scores go down and bush calls it success

Just like the "successful" War in Iraq where the insurgents are in control.

[nickgutierrez]

17. In the * way of thinking, this is a success.

Permanent underclass, here we come...

Made easier by the fact that the kids now can't read well enough to do much more than put their figurative "X" on the social contract.

[Metta]

10. Typical Reboff tactic, flash the straws ...

grasping at / up holding the straw of their policy that actually may be true. "Facts are meaningless! You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." Homer Simpson.

[KittyWampus]

11. Districts are faking scores IIRC

[Tight_rope]

12. Yeah the "rainbow" told him so!...n/t

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

13. Bush also believes, if on enough acid, that God can see people

[Blaq Dem]

14. You mean they can't read "My Pet Goat"?

Say it ain't so! Those aweful stats! It's fuzzy math, I say!