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A former employer on mine managed to buy a whole city block, lot by lot, just across the river from downtown Portland.
Makes for a nice investment.
Gross oversimplification. Sorry...on my phone...lol
A former employer on mine managed to buy a whole city block, lot by lot, just across the river from downtown Portland.
Makes for a nice investment.
You're quoting simply that PA spends more than Texas.
I'm telling you that dollars spent don't matter - the result is the same.
I can certainly agree with that, and that's part of the reason I was interested in names. Because I highly doubt those are the progressives DarrinS had in mind.
Yet they want us to protect them form themselves.
o/t but with a Ph.D. from Texas A&M in Biochemistry, and having been published in Nature (twice), The Journal of Molecular Biology (Multiple times), as well as several other peer-reviewed journals, Dr. ___________ has earned the right to never be referred to as "teacher"; even on anonymous internet boards she doesn't even know exist.
Blah blah blah. If she lectures students on chemistry she is a teacher. Getting indignant does not mitigate the fact that she does not get willy nilly fee access to transcripts. It does not mitigate that your characterizations about PA's educations system are wrong when faced with the objective reality of multiple comprehensive studies.
I have an idea: since it sounds like she is an accomplished scientist. Ask her whether or not the anecdotes of your children's education is a good basis to speak on the state of education overall in PA. The ask her if it is a good basis to speak on how PA ranks overall in the country. Ask her if she would be comfortable publishing in a journal her views on the trends on choice of majors witht he information she has gathered so far.
You obviously did not read the links and you're wrong. Next you should ask her if commenting on reports without reading them gives you credibility.
.No Child Left Behind was developed by a 'progressive schools of thought"? that's a new one to me...These methodologies and often wild ass guesses ( o open concept) were developed by these progressive schhols of thought and then codified over time by the various boards and agencies.
There's a new Republican strategy to blame all of Bush's actions on "the liberals," some people on this site have even started referring to Bush as a covert liberal. It's pretty hilarious seeing Republicans shamelessly revise history and hope people will forget what actually happened from 2001-2008.
Another good one is that "Bush kept us safe!" as if the biggest domestic terrorist attack in American history didn't occur under Bush.
TBecause unlike other genized societies, poor districts in TX don't just suffer from a money lag, they also suffer from a qualified teacher lag, English as a second language lag, emotional, physical, and behavioral issues lag.....and everyone's hands are tied by the court system who's view on education is 'equality' not what's best for the majority...he "progressive" shift in education was not an exclusively Texan shift, it's a societal shift. And it's not hard to imagine that the shift was more significant in liberal states. So again, why are Texas students lagging worse than other states?
Absolutely, Dan. Ill post up a couple of links...
LOL...
Why do liberals get so pissy when republicans deliver on democrat empty promises?
Quiet. The grownups are talking.
Another great one. Whenever the Republicans pass something really in stupid that fails, they'll say, "The Democrats made us do it!"
No...
I thought it was funny for example when Medicare part D passed. It was a democrat promise never acted on, then they get all defensive and fight against it when the republicans take the lead on it.
Who are you talking to, DOK? Besides yourself.
Neat. Medicare part D in a thread about education.
Yet another tangent you're trying to steer the topic away from.
Nm....WC. smh
The person who just responded to me.
No, I was making a point.
I just looked at the 2013 NEA Ranking and estimate do ent. They have Texas at #39 and #40, in tables F1, F2, and F3.
I started to put numbers in Excel, but I need to get some sleep.
Why Liberals Dislike No Child Left Behind
http://socialfoundations.blogspot.co...hild-left.html
Texas’ public school disaster: How segregation and cuts are gutting the system
Nation's second largest school system is over 50 percent Hispanic. That makes recent headlines even more shocking
almost everyone in the state agrees that the public school system is currently failing students and something radical has to occur to turn that around; the problem with much of this discussion is that it’s framed on “white flight” (i.e. the rich, white families abandoning public schools in favor of charter or private schools).
Currently, the Texas public school system (the second largest in the country) is over 50%Hispanic. Yet you would never know that Hispanics cons ute a majority of the public school population if you followed the sad headlines that trickle out of the three largest cities in the state.
Activists in Houston recently lost a long battle with the city over the closing of two schools from a predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhood. In 2006 a federal court ruled that Preston Hollow Elementary School in Dallas was intentionally segregating Hispanic students. And earlier this year LULAC (The League of United Latin American Citizens) sued two school districts in San Antonio for violating the Equal Educational Opportunities Act.
Mostly concentrated in urban areas, 23% of Texas schools have a Hispanic population over 80%. These are the schools where the poverty is particularly striking.
A number of factors have contributed towards the decline of Hispanic education in Texas. There’s a lack of funding for many programs with majority Hispanic populations and few teachers who speak Spanish. There’s also a dearth of Hispanic representation on many of the state school boards. Affinity programs like SAT prep are simply unrealistic for the families well below the poverty line.
An absence of a solid education is reflective in the socioeconomic outlook for Latinos in Texas. In 2010 the state census showed that 40% of Hispanics over the age of 25 didn’t complete high school (compared to 8% of non-Hispanic whites). And one out of every four Hispanics in Texas lives below the poverty line.
Everyone has an opinion on how to improve Texas schools but few are speaking about that very large Hispanic majority.
The Texas Governor’s race to succeed Rick Perry has been a national point of interest for many pundits thinking Texas could turn blue in a few years (thanks to that growing Hispanic population). But neither Wendy Davis nor her opponent Greg Abbott, the current Texas Attorney General, have adequately addressed the issue of Hispanics in the public school system.
Abbott presents some good recommendations on improving public schools (e.g., providing more transparency), but one of his central initiatives reaffirms local control. One of his proposals would allow schools to be able to “exempt themselves” from things like transportation or food and beverage service. That’s quite problematic for many families living below the poverty line.
It’s hard to envision a future for Texas without taking a serious look at the Hispanic population. Demographer Steven Murdock recently released Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge. Murdock has been a de facto prognosticatorwhen it comes to accurately foretelling the future of Texas. Numbers don’t lie.
His book offers a stern warning for the state. “In the absence of change, the Texas labor force as a whole will be less well-educated, work in lower-status occupations, and have lower incomes in 2050 than 2010.”
The last census indicated that Texas experienced the largest increase in children in the nation — which means that the future of the country is very much tied to Texas. Continuing to ignore the dire situation of education there is simply something we cannot afford.
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/04/texa...ng_the_system/
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