Hmm. Such short, shallow coverage of Stephens County, where two schools have won the Georgia Oglethorpe Award for Performance Excellence, which is based on the Baldrige Criteria, which Obama seeks to defund.
"Do all students need college?" Well, I really don't get the question. Neither do I get the usual flip-side conclusion: some kids just aren't college material, aren't going to go to college anyway, so make them work-ready.
This whole matter smacks of condescension, hypocrisy -- you name it -- and is bereft of intention to sustain democratic ideals. Why would anyone presume a mechanic will have no interest is talking Shakespeare with anybody else?
All of this is too much of what the business model does so well: reduce complicated problems to simple solutions then find somebody to blame or hold accountable for delivering the simple solutions. Here, the blame goes to the children, sadly, while those at the top and the reductionists escape.
Ed Johnson Advocate for Quality in Public Education
Hmm. Such short, shallow coverage of Stephens County, where two schools have won the Georgia Oglethorpe Award for Performance Excellence, which is based on the Baldrige Criteria, which Obama seeks to defund.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.georgiaoglethorpe.org/Recog_Award_Recips_1997-2010_040111.pdf
"Do all students need college?" Well, I really don't get the question. Neither do I get the usual flip-side conclusion: some kids just aren't college material, aren't going to go to college anyway, so make them work-ready.
This whole matter smacks of condescension, hypocrisy -- you name it -- and is bereft of intention to sustain democratic ideals. Why would anyone presume a mechanic will have no interest is talking Shakespeare with anybody else?
All of this is too much of what the business model does so well: reduce complicated problems to simple solutions then find somebody to blame or hold accountable for delivering the simple solutions. Here, the blame goes to the children, sadly, while those at the top and the reductionists escape.
Ed Johnson
Advocate for Quality in Public Education