Idiotic NCLB: 82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing'

[cali]

(AP) – 1 hour ago

An estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as "failing" under the nation's No Child Left Behind Act this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

The Department of Education estimates the number of schools not meeting targets will skyrocket from 37 to 82 percent in 2011 because states are toughening their standards to meet the requirements of the law. The schools will face sanctions ranging from offering tutoring to closing their doors.

"No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now," Duncan said in a statement. "This law has created a thousand ways for schools to fail and very few ways to help them succeed."

Duncan delivered the news in remarks to a House education and work force committee hearing, in urging lawmakers to rewrite the Bush-era act. The law was established in 2002 and many education officials and experts argue it is overdue for changes.

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[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Sell them to corporations. Corporations are our friends.

I kid; that of course is what they want. During BushCo, they started systematically attacking all American infrastructure in hopes of damaging it enough to consider it too broken for government assistance...so, sell it to the corporations who are eagerly awaiting just that!

"Disaster Capitalism". Hostile Takeover. What they break, they can purchase. Privatization should be the most frightening word in our language.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Very well said. n/t

[Thunderstruck]

2. The continued destruction of federally supported programs as part of a

concerted effort by The Company to seize control of these programs while reducing the standard of living and the further dumbing down the population.

Shock Doctrine in action.

[Tatiana]

4. There really isn't a good way to fix NCLB. It should not be reauthorized.

Hopefully we will have elected some people with brains in Congress by 2012. The entire education act needs to be re-written from beginning to end.

[LWolf]

5. And those failing scores will be used, in many states,

to evaluate teachers, and to pay teachers, or not.