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April 8, 2010

Goodbye FCAT, Hello Education

Stefani Rubino:

Last week marked a historic time for the public school system as President Obama and Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, announced that they were drafting a blueprint to "overhaul" the No Child Left Behind policy and improve the quality of the nation's schools - exactly what the current policy left behind. Though they are only in the planning process, this is the one of the greatest and most desirable moves the White House has made to date - even more so than healthcare reform.

In Fla., we are all too familiar with the No Child Left Behind policy, specifically with the creation of the FCAT and other standardized tests that are supposed to be used to gauge students' knowledge and education. "Supposed to" is the key phrase here. According to teachers' complaints, the FCAT has forced teachers to teach only for the test. As a result, students are learning to perform well on the test when they should be learning the material.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 8, 2010 3:10 AM
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