One of my favorite columnists at The Star offers his opinion on the best choices for The Kansas City, Missouri School District: :"For the Kansas City school board, the top choices for the two open at-large seats are newcomers, Kyleen Carroll and Crispin Rea Jr. . . . Joseph C. Jackson is the best candidate for the board’s subdistrict four race. "
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What do these people know about education? What do they know about the sociology of rave & economics?
ReplyDeleteWhat do they know about No Child Left Behind? What do they know about learning?
What do these people know about education? What do they know about the sociology of rave & economics?
ReplyDeleteWhat do they know about No Child Left Behind? What do they know about learning?
Good point.
ReplyDeleteI think The Star did a wonderful job in explaining the position of the candidates' personal bios, professional and political experience, associations and agendas.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the candidates who are opposing Dr. Covington will band together with the current board members who voted against his plan to oust him if they are elected to the board--especially Linwood Tauheed because the article mentions how Dr. Covington terminated Tauheed's "consultation" contract when he was hired. So you know Tauheed will be out for blood should he win a seat on that board.
A lot of these African American so called leaders don't like how Covington is drying up gravy trains by to eliminating wasteful and ineffective programs.
If the voters really want to save the school district and do right by students, they will elect Crispin Rea Jr. Kyleen Carroll, Rose Marie Bell and Joseph Jackson. There's no other options unless you want to same problems that has plagued the district for decades to continue. Anything else will be driving the final nail into the coffin.
Put your money where your mouth is($5, $10, $20) and if you don't have any, then volunteer your time to canvass, regoster voters, get people to the polls, encourage your families and friends to do the same to help these candidates win the election on April 6.
Today is a new day. Corruption, cronyism and divisivenes among factions in our community must end in order to save our struggling schools.
Yet another reason why anyone with any sense moved out of the city limits of Kansas City long ago.
ReplyDeleteSorry Yancy I disagree Rea,Jackson and Carroll. Voting for Rose will split the vote and she sided with Simmons in the last debate and was agreeing with coketha and lost my vote in the process.
ReplyDeleteThat is news to me. Rose Bell going along with those two. She has lost another vote here as well.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the endorsements won't get them a win.
ReplyDeleteWake up education reformers and billionaire knows it alls! You would NOT enroll your prized children in these “test prep” schools. Stop hyping these tired “save the school plans” and do some real reporting and research before you just copy and churn out another “press release story from the test prep industry.”
ReplyDeleteThere is no mystery or secret formula to what the administrators and educational bureaucrats are going to do public schools.
These “reform” superintendents has commanded the principals, who has ordered their staff to break down the questions on the State Assessment Test and eliminate anything in the curriculum that is not on that test; and then just teach and retest those points until the scores go up.
To do this, they will narrow the curriculum and eliminate interesting, creative, lesson plans (and the teacher’s academic freedom to create,) to the point where these schools will become boring, sterile, monotonous, and pre programmed environments that will award learners who “collect points” and punish students (and teachers) who thrive on critical thinking.
In other words, this plan will squash out of kids their natural passion of “loving, to love to learn” and replace it with rewarding students who excel at “pleasing the test givers.”
These policies are not tolerated at the top level, private, prep schools, because the parents there know that “test prep” is not “life prep/vocational” training.” (In fact, many universities are no longer using test scores to determine admissions.)
So again, our public school students are denied the education that the top performing schools provide. Who then, benefits from test prep plans? You guessed it… the “hero,” education CEO’s, administrators and educational bureaucrats who claim to “save” these schools.
That usually translates into very high pay scales and lucrative retirement plans for these “educational leaders.” Who losses? The students who are drilled for 13 years so they can pass a test, but then, leave school and enter college and the work force with no enthusiasm, no inspiration and no plans or skills to get a job and become self sufficient.
“Test driven, or force-fed, learning cannot enrich and promote the traits necessary for life success.” - James Comer Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry and the founder of the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University. He is the author of “Leave No Child Behind” and the forthcoming “What I Learned in School: Reflections on Race, Child Development and Education.”