If you have any information about such, I would surely appreciate seeing it.
No, this about pairing each school with a corporate "sponsor", the better to train students to be good little corporate drones.
Furthermore, note what Obama has placed emphasis on, "and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering and math." Again, not every student is cut out for those fields. What about placing an emphasis on English as well, or Social Sciences.
Finally, this is simply a continuation of already failed strategy, namely having schools "compete" for resources, much like is done under RTTT. That essentially means that suburban schools, who already have a wonderful funding base and access to a lot of resources, are going to be outclassing both inner city schools and rural schools.
Such a competition model under both NCLB and RTTT has proven a failure, we are turning out more and more high school graduates who are not ready for college, trade schools, or the real world. But somehow the competition model is supposed to work now
Instead of pitting one school against another for money and resources, how about we fully fund each and every school, provide all of them with the resources they need. How about we put actual educators in charge of making decisions about education, from the school board level all the way up to Secretary of Education.
Those are the kind of changes we need, not competition between schools.
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