Burn the Blueprint, Send the Billionaire Boys' Club Packing, and Start Over
The $4.35 billion pile that Arne Duncan is using to bribe starving states into accepting corporate education reform remains the big ed media story, even though the same corporate foundations that planned the RTTT, helped write grants for the RTTT, and will now judge the RTTT grant winners, have been busy, too, working on the new release of NCLB 2.0, known now as the "Blueprint."
Here are a few reasons to declare the Blueprint DOA. From the United Church of Christ:
Here are a few reasons to declare the Blueprint DOA. From the United Church of Christ:
What are the problems in the Obama Administration's proposals for the ESEA reauthorization?
- The "Blueprint" incorporates untried turnaround plans for the bottom 5 percent of public schools. The Obama proposal requires extremely punitive interventions for 5 percent of public schools that have been unable over time to raise their test scores. These are the schools that have, under NCLB, been commonly called "failing" schools. Because these