Report: Half of Schools Fail Federal Standards, Duncan Blames ‘No Child Left Behind’
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ATLANTA (The Blaze/AP) — Nearly half of America‘s public schools didn’t meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No Child Left Behind Law took effect a decade ago, according to a national report released Thursday.
The Center on Education Policy report shows more than 43,000 schools – or 48 percent – did not make “adequate yearly progress” this year. The failure rates range from a low of 11 percent in Wisconsin to a high of 89 percent in Florida.
The findings are far below the 82 percent failure rate that Education Secretary Arne Duncan predicted earlier this year but still indicate an alarming trend that Duncan hopes to address by granting states relief from the federal law. The law requires states to have every student performing at grade level in math and reading by 2014, which most educators agree is an impossible goal.
“Whether it’s 50 percent, 80 percent or 100 percent of schools being incorrectly labeled as failing, one thing is clear: No Child Left Behind is broken,” Duncan said in a statement Wednesday. “That‘s why we’re moving forward with giving states flexibility from the law in exchange for reforms that protect children and drive student success.”
State’s scores varied wildly. For example, in Georgia, 27 percent of schools did not meet targets, compared to 81 percent in Massachusetts and 16 percent in Kansas.
That’s because some states have harder tests or have high numbers of immigrant and low-income children, center officials said. It’s also because the law requires states to raise the bar each year for how many children must pass the test, and some states put off the largest increase until this year to avoid sanctions.
The numbers indicate what federal officials have been saying for more than a year – that the law, which is four years overdue for a rewrite, is “too crude a measure” to accurately depict what’s happening in schools, said Jack Jennings, president of the Washington, D.C.-based center. An overhaul of the law has become mired in the partisan atmosphere in Congress, with lawmakers disagreeing over how to fix it.
“No Child Left Behind is defective,” Jennings told The Associated Press. “It needs to be changed. If Congress can’t do it, then the administration is right to move ahead with waivers.”
Waivers fix the immediate problem but likely will make it much more difficult for parents to understand how schools are rated because progress will no longer be based on just one test score.
Under the 11 waivers already filed, states are asking to use a variety of factors to determine whether they pass muster and to choose how schools will be punished if they don’t improve.
Those factors range from including college-entrance exam scores to adding the performance of students on Advanced Placement tests.
At least 39 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, have said they will file waivers, though it is unclear how many will get approved.
Republicans in Congress say Duncan and President Barack Obama are using the waivers to push a “backdoor education agenda” that will ultimately let schools off the hook.
“The law needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed in Congress and not by executive action,” House education committee Chairman John Kline, a Republican from Minnesota, said in September after Obama announced the waivers.
Under No Child Left Behind, states that have tough standards are punished and schools that make progress but don’t hit benchmarks get treated the same as schools that see performance dip, Jennings said.
“A lot of educators saw the weaknesses in No Child Left Behind even when it was rolled out – that this day and time would come,” said Georgia schools Superintendent John Barge. “It’s kind of a train wreck that we all see happening.”
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Texas_Tip
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:56pmTwo centuries ago the founders rejected federal participation in education and even rejected George Washington’s plans on establishing a national university. It should be of little surprise, then, that the term “education” appears nowhere in the Constitution.
Duncan and the Obama Admin has always had designs on NCLB. Made clear in this 2009 statement;
“Today, I am calling on all of you to join with us to build a transformative education law that guarantees every child the education they want and need—a law that recognizes and reinforces the proper role of the federal government to support and drive reform at the state and local level,” Duncan’s first major speech about the future of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Proper Role?
Race to the Top approach doesn‘t seem to be the answer or even within NCLB’s SEC. 1905. Prohibition against Mandates, Direction, or Control.
Interesting that Duncan and Congress seems to have forgotten the (APLUS) and the Local Education Authority Returns Now Act (LEARN) Act. Which would let states opt out of NCLB. Instead of giving money to state educrats, LEARN would offer a credit to state taxpayers. This could also involve those school taxes that property owners pay in states without a state income tax or other ways of funding education. We all have a vested interest in the proper education of our Country’s children.
Report Post »These #s are terrible! No excuse!
Give control of our childrens’ education back to parents
NHwinter
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:12pmAnd please get the progressive/liberal agenda out of schools. Teach truth and basics. No more sensitive training with absurb courses. Bring morals back to school. If it were possible, bring God back to schools. No more teaching the children how to protest, but to become hard working, honorable citizens.
Report Post »conservideo
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mils
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:54pmTeachers always have an excuse not to have students that excell….
Report Post »Teach the basics…make sure they learn them…
When I was in school, no one passed to the next grade if they did’t pass the subjects…now?…In American schools…Johnny/Jane can‘t read and they’re the valedictorian…:)
Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:59pmNo surprise here, EVERYTHING the Government touches FAILS.!!!
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:37pmSchools are no longer educational institutions. They are social engineering factories. The latest socializing indoctrination program coming full blast into the U.S. is the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, developed in socialism central, Geneva, Switzerland. This program has partnered with UNESCO. A requirement of that partnership is the obligation to support and promote the policies of the U.N..
Report Post »All courses are required to promote wealth redistribution internationalism. No courses are to teach that America is a special place. It teaches egalitarianism of cultures.
TheCoffinMaker
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:51pmWho cares?
This country is finished.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:06amOf course blame the test not the teachers or students. The test is obviously racist.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:08amMaybe we should go back to the orginal program SLOW AND OR UNRULY CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:06amGov’t. schools don’t educate, they indoctrinate. For decades now they have dumbed-down and indoctrinated kids to be good little leftist sheeple-just look at the ows crowd.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:30amThank God my kids will be 49% smarter than public school kids!!
ha hahahahahahahh.
Read it and weep, public school kid’s parents.
What will your excuses be??
hahahahhahahhahahah
I love this so much because conservative parents who put their kids in public school are sheep.They make excuses like they must both work, social interaction…yada yada. because it means their kids won’t learn think beyond the herd- it is impossible.
And admit it moms, you don’t want to spend all day with your kids. They drive you crazy. most moms tell me that. They are already dreading Christmas break.
Well they are driving your teacher crazy too. They also prevent other kids from learning with their disruptive behavior.
“Oh, not your child” you say.
“Yes”, your little precious.
My kids are obnoxious too some times, but at their own expense.
hahahahaha. Stupid confirmed by 49%. Please don’t be mad.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:37amTexas_tip-”Give control of our children’s education back to parents”
Parents have control, they freely give it back to the government.
Please, drill that into your head. Parents DO have control. What they don’t do is TAKE responsibility.Parents don’t want the control.
TEXAS_TIP- I cannot over emphasize the denial in your statement. The excuse of it.
STOP
Report Post »robert
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:32amThe best indicators of learning ability are I.Q. tests. America’s elementary school system was orginally designed for students with an average group I.Q. of about 100-105, with special classes for those with higher I.Q.’s.
For years now the curriculum has been dumbed down to accomodate lower I.Q. groups, most especially blacks whose average group I.Q. is 85. (Lynn, I.Q. and Wealth of Nations, The Bell Curve., Murray and Hernnstein, plus at least 100 other studies verifying the same.)
No Child Left Behind ignores I.Q. and has as its fundamental belief the proposition that everybody can learn equally if teaching methods are improved, along with tutoring, and more money in general pumped into education. We’re now seeing the result of that wrong-headed concept promoted by rabid leftists who refuse to face reality and want to call everyone a racist for simply telling the truth in order to find a solution.
As long as the difference in learning ability is ignored, failure rates will remain high as they have been since records have been kept, measuring student ability and progress.
The result of making adjustments in order to get the maximum amount of students to pass means that the curriculum has to be dumbed down to accomodate those whose learning ability is at the 85 I.Q. level. There is no other way to reduce achievement gaps except to reduce achievement requirements…….or to cheat, which some educators are doing right now.
Report Post »Bill in Texas
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:58amAs much as I disagree with NCLB because it’s the Feds mandating what should be local decisions. NCLB actually raised standards for most schools. It‘s just a typical Educrat mentality that if we can’t meet or exceed the standard it’s the standards fault. Not the educator. So they want to lower the standard to make themselves feel good along with the under achieving children they teach.
It’s the participation trophy mentality
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:55amCan’t wait to see how people here spin this to be something other than a Bush failure.
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:55pmSchools were BETTER before the Federal Government got involved. I got a better education in terms of how to learn how to think versus what they teach now…what to think 60years ago !!
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:38pmSounds like Obama’s “blame Bush” campaign.
Report Post »Get rid of the federal department of education and Arne Duncan, and let the states decide what to teach. There are ALWAYS strings attached when a state receives federal money for education (or highways, or anything else). Teach this, or no more funding.
smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:10amExactly, the origional program of slow child left behind and disruptive child removed worked a hell of alot better.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:19amThe schools in Texas teach the “Test”. Teachers hate it, students don’t learn basic life skills the learn how to take the test. I have seen High School students that had no idea how to balance a checkbook or manage a budget, but they met the standards of the Feds.
Report Post »Get the Feds out of the school system, let the teachers teach.
starman70
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:10amThe Federal Government screws up every thing it tries to “Correct”. For almost 2 centuries, America depended on locally run schools, run by school boards elected by the residents of the school districts. American schools produced the largest crop of scientists and engineers the world has ever seen. These former students propelled the American economy to become the envy of the world.
Enter the Federal Department of Education – - – Now, the American school system has some of the lowest test scores in the world and America lags behind many “Third world countries”.
the answer is: CLOSE DOWN THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION!!!!!! Return total control of the schools to the states and the local school boards. Get the FEDS out of education and watch our schools prosper.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:28amAnother thought: “No Child Left Behind” is just another attempt by the Liberal/ Socialist/ Facist idiology to turn American students into automatons, programmed to follow the mandates of Washington like a bunch of zombies. Unforunately, Bush was a Yale student, schooled in the Fabian big government mold and to plan and promote the One World Government idea, to be followed without question, in the youth of America.
It’s high time that WE THE PEOPLE demand our schools back. Teach TRUE American history and teach the Constitution and the Declaration of Independance. Get this nation back on the firm footing on which it was founded.
Report Post »Caballosinnombre
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:52pmI’ve heard that some schools are lowering the standards to make it easier for students to pass. When public employees have great job security its no wonder they will do just about anything to make things easy. Publick employees and politicks don’t mix. Reagan said it much better.
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:45pmTell that to Obama. He is thick as thieves with the unions and gave a huge amount of stimulus money to union teachers to secure their jobs. The dues the teachers pay will continue funding Obama‘s and other democrat’s campaigns! It‘s icing on the cake when Obama’s department of education czar Arne Duncan can incorporate left-wing, socialist teachings into our schools and colleges, and rewrite American history. Afterall, the younger the student, the better the outcome in the longrun.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:51pmGosh forbid anyone say the blame goes to the entire Education Industry for the last few decades. It‘s amazing how salaries and benefits kept up with the times but our children’s education didn’t. While the Educators and Administrators kept blaming not enough money or the parents, they still said they knew it all. Well folks, they didn’t. Yes, there are some great teachers, however, too many of the bad ones have been protected and retained by unions and parents afraid to hurt the teachers’ feelings. I could write volumes but I won’t.
Anyway, suddenly they are being held accountable and those responsible just don’t like it.
Report Post »Mort
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:04pmWell, Its about time to close some schools, fire some administrators, and let some teachers go. boo-hoo. If you had done the work while the master was away, you would not be ashamed when he comes home. The truth is out, the country has kids who after 12 years of public school cannot pass simple tests based on the material being taught. You know, I have 7 kids, 3 out of college, 2 in college and 2 in public high school, and they are all working their butts off, but they are not having trouble passing the tests? why you ask, my wife and I made education of the kids high on our priority list. A one room school house would be more effective than what some kids are getting, but we live in a county where the board of supervisors and the school board know that the parents will vote them out if the schools fail to teach the kids and prepare them for college or work.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:34pmBlame it on teachers union
Report Post »Ellbee
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:33pmAs with any other program, as long as the federal government is involved, it will fail and our children will continue to be taught lies, half truths and PC BS. DISBAND the Department of Education and watch how fast the states can turn this joke around.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:29pmThe Govt , teachers, unions, indoctrination , illegals…
The barrage of pedo related shows , Cop and Lawyer shows
and News agencies spouting Govt propaganda…
Nafta , Datt and all other Free trades that shipped jobs overseas…
The shutting down of America’s energy supplies…
Massive Govt intrusion into Citizens Lives…
Anyone see a pattern here…? ??
We are becoming a lower than sheet 4th world police state …
Our Wealth and Treasures and Lives are being shipped overseas…
Welcome the US of Slaves…
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:36pmThat about sums it up. And of course, it‘s George Bush’s fault. These people have become downright pathetic at this point. Now they are trying to “define” fairness for all Americans. As if they are the only ones equipped to define it. This short video says it all.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdTJR_OYnNg
wellhangingchad
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:39pmYou took the words right out of my mouth.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:43pmNice Video thanks…
have watched many of Don;s vid’s he is always on the mark.
Live Free…Dle Well…
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:23pmIs it a characteristic of socialism that failures come suddenly and through no fault of the people in charge who have the best of intentions? We are certainly not becoming bankrupt suddenly but it is going to be a big surprise when even the rich people are broke or prefer to be broke than to push the socialist hay wagon. Schools have resisted the No Child Left Behind plan from the day it was started. They fudged the numbers, manipulated the location of failing students or moved them to better the scores and whined about the demands from the first day. Sustainable energy failures are the same way. The failures seem to be sudden and shocking followed by an admission that it was a technical problem or something that the really smart people could fix if you gave them some more money. Train projects just don’t generate enough passenger revenue? Whoops all of a sudden the guy with the accounting degree was right all along. Who knew?
Report Post »geonj
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:14pmif the members of the teachers union would do their jobs and teach, students might do better on standardized tests.teachers teach kids to take tests to protect their jobs. this doesn’t work. and if we get the non english speaking illegals out of schools, the districts will end up with more money to spend per student on the legitamate students. that would make the money spending dems heads explode though. get rid of illegals and have more money to spend or keep the illegals and try to raise taxes. let’s get rid of the dept of education and free up some funds for the states to collect on their own.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:24pmOur schools won’t be better, til we get the Federal Goverment and the unions out of them. Return the control to the local or regional level, remove all the politically correct and revisionist material and start teaching our kids the truth.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:27pmBingo! Unions will eventuallydestroy anything and everything. Look at our POTUS.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:03amthe Department of Education doles out millions of dollars to fund schools. The schools hire more teachers. The teachers join teachers unions and pay dues. These dues 1) Fund high paying jobs and retirement packages for the union leadership. 2) Much of this money is funneled to Democrats and RINO Republicans who in turn funnel more of our tax dollars into the schools via the DOE. It is an unending circle, going round and round.
How to break the circle? Close the Department of Education!
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:10pmDid Detroit score the lowest? no problem they still get a trophy.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:17pmeveryone gets a ribbon and a happy face, there are no losers,yeah,everyone wins,isn’t great, even little johnnie gets a b,because he is really bad,but you know he is a winner,so pin the ribbon on.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:10pmClearly the standards are to high, let’s lower the standards.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:14pmLike we have lowered the standards to become President. Anyone seen Obama’s transcripts yet?
Report Post »Phreqguru
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:09pmSomeone give that woman some crayola’s and a coloring book so she can go sit in the corner, get her a drool cup also. The Department of Edu needs to be shut down, a major waste of tax dollars. OMG
Report Post »Southernsoul
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:09pmThey needed a study for this? I’ve been screaming this for years. They are teaching college students stuff that I had to learn in the 8th grade, back in the 70′s. Liberals, and those people who are too weak to stand up against them (most of the country) have destroyed this country. I fear to think of what it will take to get it back on track. It won’t be pretty.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:08pmI blame “Up the Down Staircase”.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:06pmHey Arnie, let me take a guess that private schools are not in the half that fail Federal Standards. Shut down the Dept of Education and privatize all the schools. I‘m getting tired of paying for everyone’s kids education after I had to pay for my kids. At least go with vouchers so parents have a choice.
Report Post »boston-rightwinger
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:04pmThe Federal government should shut down the department of education (others too) and stop wasting the tax payers money. Education is a local issue. If the education money came out of just local taxes, maybe there would be more oversight.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:03pmToday’s culture, in it’s entirety, is to blame….but one more time, for old time’s sake, let’s blame Bush OK?? Dunce-Cap…go sit in the corner and shut up.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:01pmFederal standards – no the fault is the Federal standards that have sought for 50 years now to indoctrinate our children to be socialists rather than teach them even the basics of reading writing and math and science. It’s all about Black History Month, Martin Luther King day and damned little about the Founders of our nation like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the many others that “mutually pledge(d) to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” They don’t teach the Constitution and mangle the Bill of Rights. It’s more important to teach the little sins than to teach the great principles on which the country was founded. It’s just so much “social justice”. It’s a failure to raise up those that are the “smartest” that work hard at getting an education and the great desire that everyone be taught to the lowest median. Children are taught anything but how the REAL world works. God forbid that one child be a success, be a winner and that any other fail to be recognized for participating. Until the Federal Government and it’s chains are removed from our schools and the local communities and states retake their responsibility in what is taught, there is no program of punishment that will bring our education system in line with the rest of the world. Our kids are given everything, learn nothing, and taught that failure isn’t part of being alive.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:00pmI blame the social engineering curriculum. This has been going on for decades and this book proves it http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:58pmWhen my managers or employees fail to perform over and over they are fired. Time to dissolve the Department of Education and turn it back over to the states, and local districts. Teachers unions are almost completely to blame. They will vote back in the politicians and the politicians will continue to fund this madness. Our children and country are only getting dumber and weaker.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:58pmo ardie dunkhead blames no child left behind, well stupid is that not one of your liberal retards great ideas, is this not another t example of progressiveness gone wrong just like everything else they touch or create, is this not what the grand plan was from the start, really lazy,uneducated kids so you and your commie friends could lie,steal and cheat them forever, and now look, you finally have your best graduating class yet and you are not very happy, come on,tell the truth,you are just giddy with communist joy,because you finally have the start of your unicorn,free rainbow stew communist utopia.
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:57pmDuncan ran the public school system into the ground in Chicago. They graduate dolts who cannot ready or write worth a damned, because of Duncan. He’s a liberal moron who should be ashamed of what he has personally done to so many kids in Chicago.
The problem is teachers who don‘t know how to teach and school boards that don’t care. The curricula in schools today does nothing to prepare our young people to get a decent job – unless it’s a job in government.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:55pmGet the Feds and the NEA out of the schools and let them go back to local control.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:53pmDumb down the Class Room to the level the Dumbest — IQ matters… and some must be left behind!
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:25pmWell not left behind but that’s when the parents need to step in and take their kid to some special ED classes some kids are slow learners and some have emotional problems that must be taken care of.
Some kids need special teaching classes for a few years to catch up that’s all.
The parents need to take action to keep Johnny in the running.
I know I had learning problems my parents set me back one year so I could catch up some of this was our family moved to different county’s three times in three years so that was very disruptive to my learning and I was a slow learner and dyslexic what a combo that is.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:50pmI blame the teachers and their union.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:57pmSearch “Waiting For Superman 2010 part 1 of 11” on youtube.
You will see – it is the unions that are killing america.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:21pmHave seen it .. great movie . yes they are cheating the kids .. and you can’t get the time back for them.
Report Post »TwoLazy
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:27amYou nailed that one and a big thanks to JFK for that, and a big thanks to Eddy Kennedy for scripting “no child left behind” and to Bush for being so short sighted ….
No we can’t just all get along if getting along is doing it their way or no way.
Had Enough Yet? … wait til Congress passes HR 645 … then think about that and what just passed last night
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