Bucklion;1409429; said:The biggest problem with the education system (and the downfall of "No Child Left Behind") is the inability to hold schools "accountable". OK, a school is failing. What do we do? Take money away and close it? Where will the students go then? Most inner city and even suburban schools are overcrowded as it is, and there's already a shortage of good teachers. Do we throw MORE money at a failing school? This seems perhaps logical to send more resources to places that are failing, but it is counterintuitive to do so in terms of promoting success. How can we reward failure by throwing MORE money at it, and how can we prevent failure WITHOUT doing so? This is the no-win quandry there seems to be no way out of.
Most public schools now are being judged and their financial well being determined by their standardized test scores. A friend of mine who teaches in an inner city public school says she spends most of her time teaching the kids how to take the standardized test so they don't lose the money from the State.
I agree that throwing more money at a failing school doesn't make much sense, but I don't believe that teaching kids how to take a test as a majority of their education make sense either. What happened to teaching people the skills they needed to succeed and how to be able to think there way through problems???
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