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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Calls Texas High School Teacher Kyle Brenner to Discuss Post on Department's "Listening and Learning Tour" Blog
Are you posting on the Listening & Learning Tour blog on raising standards? Waiting for a call from Arne? So far, they've received only 400 comments to the questions Arne asked: Many states in America are independently considering adopting internationally-benchmarked, college and career-ready standards. Is raising standards a good idea? How should we go about it?
What a hoax! States are considering adopting these standards because Arne says they won't get Federal millions if they don't.
Frankly, I wish Arne would call Wilma Ralls, who begins her comment thusly:
Fifty percent of our population drops out of school before they can finish high school. This is NOT a failure of EDUCATION. This is a FAILURE of our ECONOMY! When every child is raised in a healthy environment, EDUCATION will be possible. Until then, our educational system will continue providing children raised in wealthy communities the activities required to get into their “legacy” university, along with other bad motivations picked up by the legacy of their “unequal, mis-managed, non-socialized” educational experiences, while the rest limp through life not ever really completely engaging or benefiting from conventional society. The other half of the population has gone through life in the US, at least for the past 30 years, continually being left further and further behind economically, socially, politically, health-wise and in every other area of life. Add that to a school system stuck in the 18th century and you have, yes, FAILURE! Our schools fail our students and they fail our society but until everyone in our society has an equal chance to benefit from our economy, there is not much that can be done to improve our schools with the meager resources they receive.
Or Poster 202:
How about writing standards for politicians and testing them to death?
This press release says one can read the Texas teacher's full comment at #91. Someone at the DOE can't count. It's not there. . . nor is it nearby. Nor is it at 191.
FOR RELEASE:
June 30, 2009 Contact: Sandra Abrevaya
sandra.abrevaya@ed.gov
(202) 401-1576
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today called Kyle Brenner, a world history teacher and debate coach at Princeton High School in Princeton, Texas to discuss comments Brenner recently posted on the U.S. Department of Education's Listening & Learning Tour blog.
As part of the Listening & Learning Tour, Duncan is traveling to 15 or more states to solicit feedback from a broad group of stakeholders around federal education policy in anticipation of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The tour is gathering input on the Obama administration's education agenda, including early childhood, higher standards, teacher quality, workforce development and higher education.
The Department created the Listening & learning Tour blog on May 11th, 2009 to expand the reach of the conversation. Since Duncan's first post, the Department has helped facilitate the conversation by featuring questions on raising standards, education challenges in rural areas, using data to inform instruction and turning around low-performing schools. The blog also features posts from senior Department officials who are accompanying Duncan on the tour stops around the country. To date more than 400 comments have been posted by individuals from across the country. To join the conversation, visit: http://www.edgovblogs.org/duncan/topic/join-the-conversation .
To read Brenner's entry in its entirety, visit: http://www.edgovblogs.org/duncan/2009/05/secretary-arne-duncan
-takes-listening-tour-online-invites-comments-on-raising-standards/
#comment-91 . The following is an excerpt from Brenner's post: "Teacher Pay: This often cited problem with education occurs in every state. Consider this, the smartest, brightest, and most gifted of America's graduates find careers that often pay into the six figures. If we raise teacher pay to match these fields think of the possibilities of new young teachers who will choose this career path. But with high pay should come increase teacher standards".
— Press Release
U. S. Department of Education
2009-06-30
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