Sunday, October 28, 2007

All Children Left Behind

Hidden in The Washington Post's excellent story today about the failures of the No Child Left Behind Act was the following passage about Como Elementary School in Mississippi:

More than a third of Como's 32 teachers are new this year, and five of those have been hired with an "emergency license" because they lack full teacher training. At least three of the new teachers had been dismissed or released from other schools. One resigned after just a few weeks when he was found hiding from the third-graders in his class who were throwing papers at him.
Reactions:
- How can you say you have national standards when a state like Mississippi meets expectations so much lower than everyone else?
- Those Como kids roll HARD ("Another worksheet? I got something for you, teacher man.")
- 33% makes the 10% we lost this year (after a VERY rough year in 06-07) look puny.

Posted by Unclejbird @ 3:15 PM