Challenging civil rights organizations and teachers’ unions that have criticized his education policies, President Barack Obama said Thursday that minority students have the most to gain from overhauling the nation’s schools.
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“We have an obligation to lift up every child in every school in this country, especially those who are starting out furthest behind,” Obama told the centennial convention of the National Urban League.
The Urban League has been a vocal critic of Obama’s education policies, most notably the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” program that awards grants to states based on their plans for innovative education reforms. A report released earlier this week by eight civil rights groups, including the Urban League, says federal data shows that just 3 percent of the nation’s black students and less than 1 percent of Latino students are affected by the first round of the administration’s “Race to the Top” competition.
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Rather than awarding funds to state school systems for creating a good PLAN, how about rewarding them for real PROGRESS?
There is no possible way to construct an educational plan on the basis of ‘one-size-fits-all’. Not only does every state, city and county system have different levels of competency and background requiring specific teaching approaches, so do individual neighborhood schools and thier local studentbody. The race to the top will continue to be won by the same schools as in past years until it is determined what the actual needs are and begins instruction on the level of educational background of the student population. Then it is possible to measure forward PROGRESS rather than test scores.
Comment by dprosenthal — July 31, 2010