Posts Tagged ‘Arne Duncan’
NCLB Waivers Come with Strings Attached
School Days, Education Reporter On September 22 the Obama Administration released a plan that will allow qualifying states to receive waivers exempting them from compliance with key components of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As it stands, NCLB requires all state schools to reach 100% proficiency in math and reading/language [...]
Obama Circumvents Congress on Education Policy
Rory Cooper, Heritage Foundation For the past few decades, the federal government has continuously increased its power over local schools, through funding with strings attached, with depressing results. Since the 1970′s federal spending on education has nearly tripled, yet student achievement has remained flat and graduation rates have not [...]
Highlights of the 2011 NEA Convention in Chicago
School Days, Education Reporter The NEA Representative Assembly opened in Chicago on July 2nd with 7,321 delegates, a number education union watchdog Mike Antonucci said was "by far the lowest number" since he began covering the conventions in 1998. Nonetheless, union leadership worked hard to create an enthusiastic political rally atmosphere [...]
Teacher Evaluation Double-Speak
School Days, Education Reporter One of the NEA's major squabbles with Arne Duncan is the administration's policy emphasis on tying teacher evaluation to student performance, as measured by standardized test scores. "NEA is and always will be opposed to high-stakes, test-driven evaluations," said union secretary-treasurer Becky Pringle to the [...]
DOE Chief of Staff: State Education Standards Are ‘Lying’ to Parents
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com Citing the need for “global competitiveness” and an “international benchmark” for assessing how American children are faring in core subjects like math and reading, the chief of staff to Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday that it was dishonest to allow each state to set [...]
Education Secretary Wishes U.S. Parents Were More Like South Koreans
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan indicated yesterday that he wished American parents were more like South Korean parents in the attitude they take toward the education of their children. “As I look across the globe and look at the competition we’re facing--places like South Korea where the [...]
Obama Administration: Gay Clubs Have Equal Right to Form on Campus
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at the “Federal LGBT Youth Summit” on Tuesday by video, stating that his Department was sending a letter to school districts detailing the policies and laws available to ensure that homosexual student groups can form and function on public school campuses. [...]
Perpetuating Federal Spending on Education
By Phyllis Schlafly The TEA Partiers are demanding that Congress not raise the debt ceiling but instead avoid default by cutting spending dramatically. Federal spending on education emerges as the discretionary item in the federal budget most available for the knife, and a House bill is being introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) that [...]
Fast Break: The Career and College Readiness Solution for At-risk Teens and Young Adults
School Days, EducationNews.org Fast Break: The Career and College Readiness Solution for At-risk Teens and Young Adults by Barry E. Stern, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, Haberman Educational Foundation Recent studies comparing American high schools with those in Europe and Asia confirm that our students are running in place [...]
U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES INITIATIVES TO SAFEGUARD STUDENT PRIVACY
School Days, EducationNews.org Over time, interpretations of FERPA have complicated valid and necessary disclosures of student information without increasing privacy protections and, in some cases, dramatically decreased the protections afforded students. “Data should only be shared with the right people for the right reasons,” said U.S. [...]
Politicians ‘Dummied Down’ Education Standards So They Could Get Reelected
Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com When speaking before Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan charged politicians with “dummy-ing down” state education standards under the No Child Left Behind Act to increase their chances of being re-elected. “Historically in our country, I think [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education: Education Is ‘The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Generation’
Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com In a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day address, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said education is “the civil rights issue of our generation” and the “only way” for young people to pursue the American dream. “I’m just convinced education is the civil rights issue of our generation and we [...]
To Adopt or Not? States Will Decide on Common Standards
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter, Eagle Forum Strong Federal Push Behind "State-Led Initiative" The 48 states that signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative for English/language arts and mathematics last year will soon make decisions on whether to formally adopt those standards. (Alaska and Texas declined to participate.) The [...]
Putting Private Info On Government Database — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Far more personal information on students than is necessary is being collected by public schools, according to the Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy, which investigated education records in all 50 states. States are failing to safeguard students' privacy and protect them from data misuse. Some states [...]
Arne Duncan’s First Report Card
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter With an unprecedented $100 billion in federal education funding to dole out, and a strong ally in President Obama, it would have been difficult for Arne Duncan not to make a significant impact during his first year as Secretary of Education. His Race to the Top (RTT) grant competition spurred a [...]
Obama Wants a Longer School Day — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly President Barack Obama declared recently that he is demanding that American children spend "more time in the classroom." He and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are calling for a longer school day and for year-round school, claiming that kids in other countries spend more time in school than American students do. That's not [...]
More Peculiar Obama Appointees — Schlafly
Liberty Alerts, Phyllis Schlafly Today I'm going to tell you about more of the very strange people President Obama has appointed to high offices in his Administration. Obama's Regulatory Czar, Mr. Cass Sunstein, wrote a book in 2008 in which he declared that the government "owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain [...]
