NCLB wasn’t passed all that much earlier than that.
Even if not, we have to consider what it means to have a 9th grade education.
Does it mean that students, living in poverty, feel that they have to drop out because they don’t understand the material, or do they drop out out because they have to support their brother and three sisters — Dad is a compulsive gambler and Mom works two shifts at McDonald’s, of course.
That’s a false dilemma, so consider this: parents’ income is the single highest indicator of disparities in performance among students of the same ethnic group.
Either way, NCLB has nothing to do with it. NCLB was aimed at improving student performance, not societal performance.
I’m as much a Ron Paul fan as any, but this is specious evidence.
I’m not trying to point the finger at NCLB as the sole explanation behind national drop out rates. Obviously, as you pointed out, there are a multitude of factors that may come into play in one’s decision to fore go education.
My position is simply that NCLB is not THE answer either!
I mean, what good is a program like NCLB if it merely improves test scores without alleviating drop out rates? I always understood this to be one of the fundamental goals of this particular system. It’s failure, however, as the savior of public education is, I believe, rightly reflected to one degree or another in the above image. To what degree is debatable. Either way, it doesn’t appear to be the solution we were all hoping for.
But hey, at least we agree on Ron Paul Check out the link below for his thoughts on the program:
Effective social reform is the best antidote to failing schools, and that’ll never be a Republican plank.
I’d imagine his solution for social reform would be to leave it to the states — fine by me, but it still isn’t a Republican issue, even a Ron Paul Republican issue.
To be fair, when was this first published?
I want to say 2004 but I’m not absolutely sure.
NCLB wasn’t passed all that much earlier than that.
Even if not, we have to consider what it means to have a 9th grade education.
Does it mean that students, living in poverty, feel that they have to drop out because they don’t understand the material, or do they drop out out because they have to support their brother and three sisters — Dad is a compulsive gambler and Mom works two shifts at McDonald’s, of course.
That’s a false dilemma, so consider this: parents’ income is the single highest indicator of disparities in performance among students of the same ethnic group.
Either way, NCLB has nothing to do with it. NCLB was aimed at improving student performance, not societal performance.
I’m as much a Ron Paul fan as any, but this is specious evidence.
I’m not trying to point the finger at NCLB as the sole explanation behind national drop out rates. Obviously, as you pointed out, there are a multitude of factors that may come into play in one’s decision to fore go education.
My position is simply that NCLB is not THE answer either!
I mean, what good is a program like NCLB if it merely improves test scores without alleviating drop out rates? I always understood this to be one of the fundamental goals of this particular system. It’s failure, however, as the savior of public education is, I believe, rightly reflected to one degree or another in the above image. To what degree is debatable. Either way, it doesn’t appear to be the solution we were all hoping for.
But hey, at least we agree on Ron Paul
Check out the link below for his thoughts on the program:
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=781
Effective social reform is the best antidote to failing schools, and that’ll never be a Republican plank.
I’d imagine his solution for social reform would be to leave it to the states — fine by me, but it still isn’t a Republican issue, even a Ron Paul Republican issue.