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Sides for short-term power, then what else would they be willing to do? from the state of tennessee, appalling legislation to cut the welfare benefits of families whose children are performing poorly in school. they have passed in both houses. there are exceptions for children with with handicaps and learning disabilities and in cases where parents take clear action. in the words of vance dennis, the legislation uses a carrot and stick approach. problems with the legislature abound, to cite a ...

Educators turned defendants are beginning to surrender themselves into schools custody, beverly hall, who along with her legal team, walked into the jail this morning. lawmakers in tennessee are pioneering new frontiers of high stakes testing. if your kid fails his test, he doesnt eat. well be right back with click three. as a teacher, i like to keep my morning classes lively. thanks so much for coming today, everybody.

Were probably not doing enough to improve actual education for our kids. >> indeed. dana, education secretary arne dun duncan, as you know, supported high-stakes testing. in 2011 he wrote in the "washington post" "the existence of cheating says nothing about the merits of testing." now to professor petersons point, does he have a point? >> he has a point is testing is an important measure of what students know. >> what other means do educators have of assessing a childs performance? >> right. te...

Teachers and of students using this high-stakes testing. it feels to me like what we know for certain, high stakes testing does or even low-stakes testing, what we certainly know is that testing mechanisms provide profit margins for those who create the tests. there are -- theres private industry that makes a good deal of money for making sure that there are federal and state and local requirements that young people and teachers be assessed. i think were much less clear about whether or not thos...

Illinois labor relations act says teachers can only strike for compensation reasons, basically for money, theres been a lot of teachers and even some officials of the union who said essentially this is about the conditions. a lot has to do with the conditions that we are teaching in. tell us what you know about those conditions. yeah. the strike was obviously about working conditions but working conditions are student learning conditions. in chicago and across the country, what we see is huge cl...

Neighborhood. and there is no doubt that parents even parents who are very, very supportive of teachers unions and teachers rights when they are facing with this kind of circumstance, it is very easy to start to feel quite negatively about the unions. but on the other hand, i think that the issue here in a much broader sense is that we come to this point of crisis because of a set of policies that have been polled guy sort of education reformers who rather than reforming the fundamentals of educ...

What, you didnt think i would say that? hear mae out. okay, its true. either i nor senator santorum are saying o let kids fail. im saying there are problems with the current education system. i am saying no child left behind has serious flaws. i am saying, our children deserve better than a school to prison pipeline. that pipeline is what happens when you have high stakes testing and strict discipline that involves bringing in the police for breaking school rules. it sets kids up for failure. ul...

the reality is that employers will hire, if theyve got the right incentives. but the incentives have to outweigh the costs. as an example, businesses arent going to hire someone because the governments going to give them a $4,000 tax credit. if the government mandates that are imposed on them cost a lot more than that, temporary credit. in recent years these mandates have been overwhelming. private sector job creators of all sizes have been pummeled by decisions being made right here i...

That people returning from battle are not caring the care and attention that they deserve. and so last year, the v.a. established a goal for new patients seeking primary care to be seen within 14 days of calling for an appointment. but heres the thing. without the institutional capacity to actually make good on that promise, a decree such as that appears to have simply produced cheating and gaming. and thats not new. and its not just a problem at the v.a. anyone whos watched "the wire" knows wha...

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