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The Obama administration and the media step up campaign to be considered "responsible" teachers
Tom Carter
In the past weeks, the Obama administration, supported loudly controlled media, has launched a campaign against public school teachers, blaming the failure of the education system in the USA.
This propaganda campaign has as its main objectives the justification of mass layoffs of teachers, different patterns of privatization and large spending cuts disguised as "incentives" as part of program called "Race to the Top."
The Obama administration, having squandered trillions on war and bailouts for Wall Street, it is decided that the working class should pay for the economic crisis, including through reductions in public education.
Leading the campaign is the education secretary Arne Duncan, the former "CEO" of the Chicago Public Schools student and the machine of the Democratic Party in Chicago. Earlier this week, Duncan was sent to a tour of the Courage in class "in four states, during which he congratulated those who had been introduced more slavishly" reforms "required by the regressive Obama.
Meanwhile, Duncan continued to claim "responsibility" and "transparency" for teachers. According to Duncan, the failure of the U.S. education system should not be blamed decades of budget cuts and mismanagement but teachers who fulfill their role miserably.
Duncan has explicitly supported the recent publication by the Los Angeles Times' ranking of the value added "of teachers, including the names of teachers based on student performance on standardized tests. "I am a strong advocate of transparency," said Duncan. "We have data on drop-out, on inclusion in college, on the completion of college, default rates on loans and on all other types of data that can help us to highlight our outstanding success and help us better understand why too many of Our children are unprepared. "
Duncan supervise the program called "Race To The Top "taken by Obama. The program offers various gifts and incentives to states to impose "reforms" of education required by Obama, as the privatization of education by expanding the charter school. The states themselves-already-desperate for funding are required to compete with one another for the poor federal funds.
states that meet the demands of the Obama administration's reactionary and Duncan are entitled to a share of the insignificant $ 4 billion in money from the "Race to the Top." By comparison, the total cost of the bailouts on Wall Street has been estimated at $ 23 trillion, or more than 5,700 times as much.
On 24 August, the administration has so far revealed that the District of Columbia and 13 states had qualified for the program, including Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Tennessee. Conspicuous in their absence from the list are California and Michigan, where the conditions of schools are particularly desperate.
Requests for increased charter school and to link funding to student performance on standardized tests have been raised previously by the Republicans and incorporated the infamous program "No Child Left Behind" by George W. Bush. A clear indication of the trajectory to the right of the political Is that the U.S. administration has included those same demands in its aggressive program of "reform" education. Chester Finn, assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, told csmonitor.com that Republicans are "no words ... there is nothing that I want to fight with Duncan."
Particularly shameful was the role of U.S. media in the past week in attacking the teachers and programs to promote "reform" education of Obama. There is every reason to believe that other executives of large companies are the average of coordinating their efforts with the Obama administration. Leading the pack is the Los Angeles Times, which recently launched a very special relationship of "Classification of teachers' daily attacks presenting to teachers. Many other media have behaved in the same way CNN has launched a "Fix our schools," while ABC has launched "Crisis in the classroom."
This week, the Los Angeles Times published a provocative data on 6,000 individual teachers, complete with charts of "added value" according to student performance on standardized tests. Duncan, meanwhile, has encouraged the publication of these data by other newspapers around the country.
The use of the terminology "value added" is part of the attempt to impose the principles of corporate profit in public education.
A teacher from Los Angeles compared the "rankings" in the Los Angeles Times being forced to wear a "scarlet letter." Many teachers have noted that the rankings produced by comparing the results of tests of the students had little relation to the ability of the teacher. The multiple-choice standardized tests examine a narrow range of skills such as math, vocabulary and reading comprehension. Critical thinking, writing, creativity, cultural and historical awareness and artistic ability are completely ignored. A teacher noted that a teacher may inadvertently reduce its "ranking" allowing students who have difficulty moving in his class, as are many excellent teachers.
the Obama campaign against the teachers began with a speech that Obama gave the same July 29, which required "some degree of responsibility" for teachers. Obama said that "although we applaud the teachers for their hard work, we must be sure to see the results in class. If we do not see results in class, then work with teachers to help them become more effective."
"If this does not work," said Obama in a threatening way, we find the right teacher for that class. "
Requests "responsibilities" are absolute hypocrisy of the Obama administration and should be rejected with contempt. Under Obama, there is no "liability" for those politicians who have enacted the budget cuts that have devastated public education and social programs.
There is no "responsibility" for the senior generals and politicians who authorized and organized war crimes and torture. There is no "responsibility" for senior executives, bankers, investors and financiers whose reckless drive for profit has immensely aggravated the economic crisis. Meanwhile, teachers of public schools, many of whom make heroic efforts to lift the hearts and minds of Youth against tremendous obstacles, they must be "held accountable".
This propaganda campaign has as its main objectives the justification of mass layoffs of teachers, different patterns of privatization and large spending cuts disguised as "incentives" as part of program called "Race to the Top."
The Obama administration, having squandered trillions on war and bailouts for Wall Street, it is decided that the working class should pay for the economic crisis, including through reductions in public education.
Leading the campaign is the education secretary Arne Duncan, the former "CEO" of the Chicago Public Schools student and the machine of the Democratic Party in Chicago. Earlier this week, Duncan was sent to a tour of the Courage in class "in four states, during which he congratulated those who had been introduced more slavishly" reforms "required by the regressive Obama.
Meanwhile, Duncan continued to claim "responsibility" and "transparency" for teachers. According to Duncan, the failure of the U.S. education system should not be blamed decades of budget cuts and mismanagement but teachers who fulfill their role miserably.
Duncan has explicitly supported the recent publication by the Los Angeles Times' ranking of the value added "of teachers, including the names of teachers based on student performance on standardized tests. "I am a strong advocate of transparency," said Duncan. "We have data on drop-out, on inclusion in college, on the completion of college, default rates on loans and on all other types of data that can help us to highlight our outstanding success and help us better understand why too many of Our children are unprepared. "
Duncan supervise the program called "Race To The Top "taken by Obama. The program offers various gifts and incentives to states to impose "reforms" of education required by Obama, as the privatization of education by expanding the charter school. The states themselves-already-desperate for funding are required to compete with one another for the poor federal funds.
states that meet the demands of the Obama administration's reactionary and Duncan are entitled to a share of the insignificant $ 4 billion in money from the "Race to the Top." By comparison, the total cost of the bailouts on Wall Street has been estimated at $ 23 trillion, or more than 5,700 times as much.
On 24 August, the administration has so far revealed that the District of Columbia and 13 states had qualified for the program, including Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Tennessee. Conspicuous in their absence from the list are California and Michigan, where the conditions of schools are particularly desperate.
Requests for increased charter school and to link funding to student performance on standardized tests have been raised previously by the Republicans and incorporated the infamous program "No Child Left Behind" by George W. Bush. A clear indication of the trajectory to the right of the political Is that the U.S. administration has included those same demands in its aggressive program of "reform" education. Chester Finn, assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, told csmonitor.com that Republicans are "no words ... there is nothing that I want to fight with Duncan."
Particularly shameful was the role of U.S. media in the past week in attacking the teachers and programs to promote "reform" education of Obama. There is every reason to believe that other executives of large companies are the average of coordinating their efforts with the Obama administration. Leading the pack is the Los Angeles Times, which recently launched a very special relationship of "Classification of teachers' daily attacks presenting to teachers. Many other media have behaved in the same way CNN has launched a "Fix our schools," while ABC has launched "Crisis in the classroom."
This week, the Los Angeles Times published a provocative data on 6,000 individual teachers, complete with charts of "added value" according to student performance on standardized tests. Duncan, meanwhile, has encouraged the publication of these data by other newspapers around the country.
The use of the terminology "value added" is part of the attempt to impose the principles of corporate profit in public education.
A teacher from Los Angeles compared the "rankings" in the Los Angeles Times being forced to wear a "scarlet letter." Many teachers have noted that the rankings produced by comparing the results of tests of the students had little relation to the ability of the teacher. The multiple-choice standardized tests examine a narrow range of skills such as math, vocabulary and reading comprehension. Critical thinking, writing, creativity, cultural and historical awareness and artistic ability are completely ignored. A teacher noted that a teacher may inadvertently reduce its "ranking" allowing students who have difficulty moving in his class, as are many excellent teachers.
the Obama campaign against the teachers began with a speech that Obama gave the same July 29, which required "some degree of responsibility" for teachers. Obama said that "although we applaud the teachers for their hard work, we must be sure to see the results in class. If we do not see results in class, then work with teachers to help them become more effective."
"If this does not work," said Obama in a threatening way, we find the right teacher for that class. "
Requests "responsibilities" are absolute hypocrisy of the Obama administration and should be rejected with contempt. Under Obama, there is no "liability" for those politicians who have enacted the budget cuts that have devastated public education and social programs.
There is no "responsibility" for the senior generals and politicians who authorized and organized war crimes and torture. There is no "responsibility" for senior executives, bankers, investors and financiers whose reckless drive for profit has immensely aggravated the economic crisis. Meanwhile, teachers of public schools, many of whom make heroic efforts to lift the hearts and minds of Youth against tremendous obstacles, they must be "held accountable".
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