[net-gold] Civil Rights Groups Skewer Obama Education Policy
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- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:48:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Civil Rights Groups Skewer Obama Education Policy
Civil Rights Groups Skewer Obama Education Policy
The Answer Sheet
Washington Post
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/
answer-sheet/education-secretary-duncan
/civil-rights-groups-skewer-oba.html>
It is most politely written, but
a 17-page framework for education
reform released Monday by a coalition
of civil rights groups amounts to a
thrashing of President Obamas
education policies and it offers a
prescription for how to set things
right.
You wont see these sentences in the
piece: Dear President Obama, you say
you believe in an equal education for
all students, but you are embarking on
education policies that will never
achieve that goal and that can do harm
to Americas school children, especially
its neediest. Stop before it is too late.
But that, in other nicer words, is
exactly what it says. The courteous
gloss on this framework cant cover up
its angry, challenging substance.
The Framework for Providing All Students
an Opportunity to Learn is a collaboration
of these groups: Lawyers Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law, Rainbow PUSH
Coalition, Schott Foundation for Public
Education, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, National
Coalition for Educating Black Children,
National Urban League, and the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Leaders of these groups were scheduled
to hold a press conference Monday to
release the framework but it was
cancelled because, a spokesman said,
there was a conflict in schedules.
The delay was, presumably, not connected
to public appearances this week by Obama
and Education Secretary Arne Duncan at
the convention marking the 100th
anniversary of the Urban League in
Washington D.C. Obama is making a speech
on Thursday; Duncan on Wednesday.
The frameworks authors start the
framework seeming conciliatory,
applauding Obama's goal for the United
States to become a global leader in
post-secondary education attainment by
2020.
But quickly their intent is clear. They
take apart the thinking behind the
administrations education policies,
and note a number of times the
differences between what Obama and
Duncan say about education and what
they do.
<snip>
Rather than addressing inequitable
access to research-proven
methodologies like high-quality
early childhood education and a stable
supply of experienced, highly
effective teachers, recent education
reform proposals have favored
stop gap quick fixes that may look new
on the surface but offer no real
long-term strategy for effective
systemic change. The absence of
these stop gap programs in affluent
communities speaks to the marginal
nature of this approach. We
therefore urge an end to the federal
push to encourage states to adopt
federally prescribed methodologies
that have little or no evidentary
support for primary implementation
only in low-income and high-minority
communities.
This is really tough talk, and it
is about time that America's civil
rights leaders are speaking up.
The only question is whether anybody
in the Obama administration is
actually listening.
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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