The quality of education in America remains a popular topic. Mitch Daniels plans to take action immediately. He has an outlined plan set out that only needs to be implemented by society. For example, Daniels plans to contribute more of the state's money towards teachers who are doing their job correctly. If their is social regulation present then society as a whole can implement his outlined plans which will lead to the system operating more efficiently.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20101107/NEWS08/11070358/1008/NEWS05/Tully-For-education-reformers-the-time-is-now?odyssey=mod_sectionstories
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When reading this article one wonders why Mitch Daniels has waited to 'take action'. Mitch has all the states tools at his disposal and yet Indiana's educational system remains consistently poor.Daniels should skip regulation and go straight to grants. Schools who have no money have no resources and poor teachers. The only ones that suffer from the continual lack of funding is the children. This is a system that is broken and needs some major over hauling. We need to rebuild the system from the ground up. -Kayla Carson
ReplyDeleteI would agree with Kayla in that Mitch needs to be working for constructive change through grants for literacy programs and the like.
ReplyDeleteIncentivizing teachers is a great idea, however, I would argue that "punishing" teachers and schools that don't meet certain standards is not the best option.
Under Public Law 221, my public high school was required to show dramatic levels of improvement in ISTEP+ scores ever year, despite taking in more impoverished students and non-native speakers of English every year. Obviously, improvement in these circumstances is going to be much more difficult than in a school whose demographics remain the same. It wasn't the fault of the teachers or administrators that we were dealt an unideal deck of cards. Many of them ended up getting laid off, and although or school was in my opinion quite a good one, we were considered "failing" and had to suffer the consequences outlined in P.L. 221.
Rather than slashing budgets and hurting teachers, let's put more of our energy and resources into these "failing" schools. Instead of pushing for more charter schools, let's help our public schools get back on their feet as best as we possibly can.