tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post2043802301319397708..comments2024-02-24T19:49:45.687-05:00Comments on Schools Matter: Speaking Out on NCLBJames Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-23699299080156171532007-04-16T10:56:00.000-04:002007-04-16T10:56:00.000-04:00Good for parents to be involved! Legislators seem ...Good for parents to be involved! Legislators seem to be just now grasping an understanding of what NCLB is doing to our youth and our schools.<BR/><BR/>While privatization, over-testing, the needs of ELL and SDC students, and the increasing pressure of classroom teachers are important issues to revisit in terms of NCLB, educators and education advocates need also to remember the importance of eliminating Section 9528, the military access section, of NCLB. <BR/><BR/>As tuition rates for higher education limit students ability to continue their educational accomplishment, and information about grants and scholarships are not transmitted to students the military becomes more of an eventuality rather than an option for working class youth. <BR/><BR/>Part of NCLB's overall incoherence creates this dynamic as teachers and counselors are pulled away from teaching critical thinking and providing information needed for students to succeed in higher education so as to give tests and 'analyze' test data, while military recruiters appear offering money and 'leadership training' to bewidered and frustrated students.<BR/><BR/>It is somewhat ironic that the forces that have eliminated many jobs in America through outsourcing are the same ones that the American military ends up 'pacifying' other peoples for and sustaining the dictatorships that allow corporate sweatshops and child labor factories to exist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com