Detail One Size Cann't Teach All   Oleh:  Kaplan, David A. Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: Fortune vol. 162 no. 9 (Dec. 2010), page 22. Topik: Nationalized education; Raison d'etre; Accountability; NCLB. Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: FF16.44 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel So MUCH FOR limited government! Nine years ago President Bush signed No Child Left Behind into law. It represented a revolution in education reform, as well as a triumph of bipartisanship: More than nine in 10 members of Con¬gress voted for it, and the lion of the left, Sen. Ted Kennedy, beamed by the President's side at the bill sign¬ing. Even if it promised "flexibility" and "choice," its raison d'etre was "accountability," which meant a pile of new, high-stakes assessment tests. If you wanted federal funds—and there were tens of billions in new NCLB spending—you had to meet metrics set by your own state. Sixteen months ago President Obama upped the federal role in K-12 education with Race to the Top, which aimed to improve teaching and spur other changes—again, as measured by data. RTTT cost $4.3 billion and came from the stimulus package. Together, two administrations of dif-ferent political persuasions had nationalized American edu¬cation policy. In a country continually roiled by debates over federalism, how could that have happened so bloodlessly? If U.S. students were doing fundamentally better, we could dispense with a debate over Washington's proper place in education. But overall performance isn't improv-ing, and "reform" has yielded unintended consequences. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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